Sentence examples for representational acts from inspiring English sources

Representations are representational acts, never the "objects with constant properties" propounded by adherents of a so-called theory of substantiality (Substantialitätstheorie) (1911a: 1911a

Now while Wundt is forced to speak of representations and representational acts as distinct, he is nevertheless clear that they are merely different aspects of a single flowing process.

This identity of representation and representational act typifies what we may call Wundt's "monistic perspectivism".[41] Everywhere he insists that the "psychic processes form a unitary flow of events [einheitliches Geschehen[42]]," the constituents of which—"representing, feeling, willing, etc". are "only differentiated through psychological analysis and abstraction" (1911a: 1911a

On the evidence of "innumerable psychological facts,"[47] Wundt claims that all representations are formed through "psychological synthesis of sensations," and that this synthesis accompanies every representational act (PP II: 256).

The representational tools (number systems, graphs) and objects (crates, coins, bills) used outside school become part of our thinking as we act and think with them.

We are therefore entitled to take the act of representational synthesis as a "characteristic feature of consciousness itself" (PP II: 256).

That is, the external object at which the mind is directed need not play any role in determining the representational content of an act-idea.

It should be noted that this view of speech acts as lacking representational content has been challenged.

In other words, the material-objective distinction brings to light the internal relation between the idea as act of representation and the idea as representational content, a relation that is in fact not recognized in the formal-objective reality distinction.

But every act-idea also possesses representational content (Nadler 1989).

The labor board wrote, "A growing number of employees who are part of what is commonly described as the 'contingent work force' are being effectively denied representational rights guaranteed them under the National Labor Relations Act".