Sentence examples for the mere representations from inspiring English sources
In line with such a conception, Hegel sometimes referred to the task of philosophy as that of recognising the concept (Der Begriff) in the mere representations (Vorstellungen) of everyday life.
The mere representation of redness does not suffice for phenomenal red, for something's looking red to a subject.
The props are mere representations, nothing more.
This phenomenon speaks to the ways mere representation has been misconstrued as liberation.
Following Rorty (1991, 81) "[t]heories and perspectives draw our attention to certain issues; they invite us to punctuate the world in particular ways; they are tools for doing things, rather than mere representations of the world as it allegedly is".
As the result of these excavations and his ethnological investigations of the modern-day indigenous Huichol and Cora peoples of Nayarit, Furst proposed that the artifacts were not only mere representations of ancient peoples, but also contained deeper significance.
This foundational portion of the Elementary Philosophy thus purports to provide a thorough and complete analysis of the necessary features of representation qua representation, an analysis that claims to show "that space, time, the twelve categories, and the three forms of the ideas are originally nothing but properties of mere representations" (Fundament, pp. 72 73).
In this system, they insist, flows of desire have become mere representations of desire, cut off from the body without organs and the extra-familial mechanisms of society.
If the people in the room were a mere representation of the many people heading in the same direction, just imagine if we all banded together.
The people of Trapani and the Oxford campaigners are both making explicit a feeling we seem to share – a belief that statues are more than mere representations.
This raises an interesting question about whether there is a motivated and principled difference between concepts in humans and mere representations in animals.
