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There seems to be no guarantee that any act of remembering does provide access to the past at all: representationist trace theories thus cut the subject off from the past behind a murky veil of traces (Wilcox and Katz 1981, p. 231; Ben-Zeev 1986, p. 296).

Memory Sutton, John 2004

To accuse the representationist of maintaining a doctrine more repugnant to common sense than this, or in any way different from it, would be both erroneous and unjust.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Reid, so far from having overthrown the representative theory, was himself a representationist.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

The two greatest and most unaccountable blunders in the whole history of philosophy are, probably Reid's allegations that Berkeley was a representationist, and that he was an idealist; understanding by the word _idealist_, one who denies the existence of a real external universe.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

If we have proved him to be a representationist, he cannot be held to be an intuitionist.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

It is curious, however, that the very passage (_Lectures_, i., p. 146) which Mr. Mill cites as proving that Hamilton, in spite of his professed phenomenalism, was an unconscious noumenalist, is employed by Mr. Stirling to prove that, in spite of his professed presentationism, he was an unconscious representationist.

The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845

What's more, people with damage to certain parts of their brain suffer from strange perceptual anomalies which seem to confirm the representationist view of the mind: phantom limbs (when a limb has been amputated but the person retains an awareness of it, as if it were still attached to the body), for example, can best be explained as the persistence of a representation of the limb within the brain even if the limb itself is no longer attached to the body.

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