Sentence examples for representations of which from inspiring English sources

The snake, for example, representations of which adorn religious and royal buildings, symbolizes the benevolent spirit of the water and the protector of the king.

There are suggestions in Spinoza's Ethics that he thinks there are some representations of which we are unaware.

Rather, I should have "as many-coloured and diverse a self as I have representations of which I am conscious... ...... (B134) — as are in fact had by me, for I would not, of course, be aware that it was me.

Interestingly, thinking about such media of perception (especially the empirical study of optics) originally helped Descartes motivate the rather strange idea that representations of which we are unaware pervasively mediate our experience of the world.

We generalise the 'sociometer theory of self-esteem' is to a 'sociometer theory of self-representation'. Type-based interpersonal representations, of which (trait) self-esteem is only a subset, serve to optimise context-dependent social computations.

I am thus curious to know, for each of the historical drawings presented in that manuscript, whether these schemes were considered by their authors as the natural picture of diversity, or mostly as some practical/ arbitrary" representations (of which they may even have proposed simultaneously many).

"What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived?" he asked in a celebrated preface.

And if nothing else, an inevitable result of Clegg bringing the Lib Dems into government would be some move towards proportional representation, of which my fond hope is that it might restore some influence from voters on the detail of what our government imposes upon us.

The following lemma gives the multiplier representation of, which follows from Definition 2.2 and (2.23).

The expression that content is given from 'outside of us,' Maimon writes, means only "something in a representation of which we are conscious of no spontaneity, that is, (in view of our consciousness) a mere passivity without activity".

1. Codes are systems of representations, and in the context of the discussion of Dual Coding theory, we are talking about types of mental representation of which we can, at least potentially, be directly conscious, as we often are conscious of both imagery and of "inner speech".