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representability

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being representable, or of being susceptible of representation.

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  • noun The quality of being representable.

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Examples

  • Ferris's essay, since the "failure" he notes here seems to be the opposite of the aesthetic's "failure" to conceal its violence that he was discussing earlier: here the law cannot come to representation, whereas earlier, the violence of the aesthetic had to come to representation (or more precisely, to recognition; but even the recognition of a non-representation demands a certain manifestation of this non-representability).

    Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

  • Thus Peano, like Church but unlike Wittgenstein, saw that the definition of the numbers as iterators gives for free the representability of a number of functions obtained by iteration.

    Recursive Functions Odifreddi, Piergiorgio 2005

  • Essentially parallel to the Łukasiewicz approach, the American mathematician Post (1921) introduced the basic idea of additional truth degrees, and applied it to problems of the representability of functions.

    Many-Valued Logic Gottwald, Siegfried 2004

  • Tait, in contrast to Parsons, rejects the aspect of representability in intuition as the hallmark of the finitary; instead he takes finitary reasoning to be “a minimal kind of reasoning supposed by all non-trivial mathematical reasoning about numbers” and analyzes finitary operations and methods of proof as those that are implicit in the very notion of number as the form of a finite sequence.

    Hilbert's Program Zach, Richard 2003

  • In addition to the opportunity which this project created for the fast tracking of 100 prosecutors, with the objective if improving the level of experience of prosecutors, it also created an opportunity for the Department to promote representability in respect of prosecutors.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Compromise through representability, of which exchange is a special case, means the fundamental, even though only partly realized, possibility of avoiding conflict or of terminating it before the mere strength of the parties has sealed the decision.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • Compromise through representability, of which exchange is a special case, means the fundamental, even though only partly realized, possibility of avoiding conflict or of terminating it before the mere strength of the parties has sealed the decision.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • Compromise through representability, of which exchange is a special case, means the fundamental, even though only partly realized, possibility of avoiding conflict or of terminating it before the mere strength of the parties has sealed the decision.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • The difference is one of volume and permanence in the rival satisfactions, and the attitude conscience will assume toward these depends more on the representability of the demands compared than on their original vehemence or ultimate results.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • To be registrable a trademark must pass the test of distinctiveness, graphical representability and non-functionality.

    Patent Baristas Guest Barista 2010

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