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- noun Plural form of
representationalist .
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Examples
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He intends his account in the same metaphysical spirit in which strong representationalists present their account: the difference being in the kind of intentional content pains have.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Like earlier direct realists, strong representationalists tend to be naturalists or physicalists.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Strong representationalists are committed to claiming that all qualia are representational.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Many representationalists including Tye defend (or at least start with) an informational theory.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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According to strong representationalists (in Klein's terminology, intentionalists), this content is purely descriptive.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Although a functionalist treatment of affective qualia seems problematic for pure strong representationalists, it may be welcomed by perceptual theorists in general who are seeking to give a naturalistic account of pain as a perception.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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This clearly differentiates Henry from anti-representationalists like Olivi and Ockham in his later phase, even though (pace Pasnau 1997) Henry remains one of the first authoritative masters to eliminate the mediation of intelligible species explicitly on the basis of the principle of economy (as is made further evident by the reactions of his contemporaries and the masters of the next generation).
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There will always be representationalists to do a Thomas Kinkade ™ number on the surrealists, always people who think Mozart has “too many notes.”
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In order to account for the intuitive differences between conceptual and sensory representations, representationalists appeal to their structural or functional differences.
Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008
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Phenomenalists and non-reductive representationalists (Block, Chalmers, Loar, Peacocke, Siewert), on the other hand, take it that the representational content of such states is
Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008
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