Sentence examples for represent things as from inspiring English sources

It's a nicely recognisable style, and enables Mitchell to represent things as precisely as possible, which suits his material well.

In what different ways might experiences represent things as mind-independent?

In addition, our sense perceptions may represent things as being a certain way, when they are not.

A theory of the nature of propositions must enable us to see how they could represent things as being a certain way.

A third idea in the area is that tactile experiences themselves, by virtue of their phenomenology alone, represent things as external to the subject's body.

One debate in this area (already mentioned in connection with spatial representation) is whether a visual experience's representing things as occupying three dimensions suffices to represent things as mind-independent (see Strawson 1958, Peacocke 1983, Smith 2002).

A related question is which properties color experience represents things as having when it represents them as being colored.

Another topic concerning spatial representation in experience is the relation between representing locations of things, on the one hand, and representing things as mind-independent, on the other.

Accordingly, this case should be assimilated to sensory misrepresentation: representing things as they are not (representing cold as a quality when it is the absence of a quality).

Another is to accept that causal role determines the representational status of a mental state (i.e., that it is a representation) but does not fully specify representational content (i.e. how that representation represents things as being); but this seems to involve abandoning full-blown functionalism.

More carefully put in terms of model-theoretic actualism, the truth value of a de re sentence at a Tarski model within an intended* Kripke model M is evaluated from the perspective of the "actual" world @ of M. Notably, suppose M is a Tarski model in M representing things as they might have been if Socrates hadn't existed.