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- noun philosophy The belief that the
conscious perception of the world is actually an internalreplica of the world of the mind of the beholder. - noun art Realistic
representation of the world in art.
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Examples
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Furthermore, though this is a logically separable thesis known as representationalism or intentionalism, the phenomenal characters of these conscious states are supposed by these and other authors to supervene on their contents.
Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008
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(This view is also sometimes referred to as representationalism or as indirect realism.)
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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"representationalism" shall mean the strong representationalist view.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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Adverbialism gave way to a strong form of representationalism by suggesting ways in which intentional content could be naturalized on the basis of those canonical conditions that causally/lawfully control the occurrence of perceptual experiences in virtue of which they represent those bodily conditions.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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The result was strong representationalism about all experiential phenomenology, according to which the entire phenomenal (qualitative) content or qualia of any experience is metaphysically constituted without remainder by its representational content.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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It was the entrenchment of this indirect representationalism against which Heidegger was fighting in Being and Time.
Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009
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It was the entrenchment of this indirect representationalism against which Heidegger was fighting in Being and Time.
enowning enowning 2009
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Confronted with such difficulties and many others, it is tempting to adopt a strong form of representationalism that openly admits the existence of phenomenologically rich experiences, while preserving the basic intuition and naturalistic motivation behind direct realism.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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To recap, strong representationalism is the modern day's direct realism about perception, where adverbialism is replaced by representationalism run on a naturalistic story about how perceptual experiences acquire their (analog) representational content that in turn constitutes their phenomenology.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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But once functionalism is allowed, we don't need to make a detour via representationalism.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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