Sentence examples for representation of the thing from inspiring English sources

The shame is in the confusion between the increasingly sophisticated representation of the thing and the thing itself.

This is an insidious effect of the population decline: after a few days you realise that the city never looks full, and although that can seem a blessing it also makes the city feel like a film set, a representation of the thing rather than the thing itself.Just west of Woodward and about two miles farther north is the Boston-Edison district, with some 900 homes spread across 36 blocks.

Kevin O'Regan and Alva Noë's rejection of the binding problem 'as, in essence, a pseudo-problem' (O'Regan and Noë, 2001, 967) comes as part of their general attack on the idea that perception requires the representation of the thing perceived.

Moreover, Auriol makes clear in this context that this esse apparens is not a representation of the thing with its own real being; rather it is the thing itself merely placed in another type of existence.

But since the external thing is fashioned after its divine idea, the "retouching" of the concept in terms of the original idea does yield a better representation of the thing; indeed, so much better that on the basis of this "retouched" concept we are even able to judge just how well the thing realizes its kind.

This is, after all, a representation of the things and places that you would share with someone else.

According to Thomas Aquinas' theory of knowledge, the agent intellect abstracts a thing's form or essential information from the image or representation of that thing.

In a way it is all-Bach with the right text and a reasonable representation of the "real thing".

In particular, the simulation, as a special form of CBA, is an "artificial representation of the real thing" (Hanna and Dettmer 2004) and can open up new possibilities, because it "ensures a measurement of authentic abilities without bringing the testees in such real-world situations" (Winther and Achtenhagen 2009, p. 98).

"We very intentionally chose what we felt were the most iconic elements of each species and focused our design on those, the outcome being a stylized representation of the actual thing," Nava explains.

To imagine something is to form a particular sort of mental representation of that thing.