Sentence examples for represent something as from inspiring English sources
They're not technically challenging, it's about attempting to represent something as simply as possible.
Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent something as "a medium betwixt unity and number". Superficial resemblance to Frege's famous puzzle has kept the difficulty in the shadows.
A symbol, says the dictionary, is something that stands for something else or a sign used to represent something, "as the lion is the symbol of courage, the cross the symbol of Christianity".
These units of consciousness he labels intentional acts or intentional experiences, since they always represent something as something thus exhibiting what Brentano called intentionality.
This is often unavoidable, because for many properties or kinds \(F\), a visual representation cannot represent something as being \(F\) without representing it as being \(F\) in a particular way.
While there is something wrong with an account of what it is to φ that appeals to being or doing φ, it is not so obviously problematic to appeal to mental states that represent something as being or doing φ.
And obviously, based on his style of play — and also based upon his tremendous success in the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984 — we felt that he represented something as all-American as apple pie.
In fact, it is hard to see how an experience's representing something as bad can be an intrinsic motivator all by itself.
Consider a subject who doesn't possess the concept RED29 (where red29 is a specific shade of red), but whose experience represents something as being red29.
It is not generally true that when a representation represents something as being F, there has to actually be something which is F. Thus for the intentionalist, experience is representational in a way that contrasts with it being relational.
There is, however, an alternative interpretation: a sensation of color is a sensory experience, which represents something as having a certain quality (the experience has a certain intentional content).
