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  • It is only, I think, the predominance of our visual and kinaesthetic sense of physical orientation, the highly spatial focus of our experience, that leads us to concentrate on those types of perception which model the world as a sort of wireframe simulation, a point-to-point mapping that represents (re-presents) rather than symbolises.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • But a much longer struggle re-presents itself when the two clubs collide today.

    Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United ready to pull clear of Liverpool 2011

  • It is only, I think, the predominance of our visual and kinaesthetic sense of physical orientation, the highly spatial focus of our experience, that leads us to concentrate on those types of perception which model the world as a sort of wireframe simulation, a point-to-point mapping that represents (re-presents) rather than symbolises.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The Internet, and its use of audiovisual media, graphics, and other things, both re-presents and distorts reality--its re-presentation of reality necessarily involves distortion?

    Archive 2008-06-08 papabear 2008

  • Knowing re-presents; which means that whatever stimulus starts the process off is not adequately thought of as a fixed entity requiring no more than a single identification.

    Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist 2005

  • Knowledge is instead a process of interpretation: the true idea selects, emphasizes, and re-presents those aspects of the object that will be meaningfully fulfilled in subsequent experience.

    Josiah Royce Parker, Kelly A. 2004

  • As a consequence, where the representational content of the poem re-presents the importance of sensation, the poem's rhyme presents the reader with sensory material that must in fact be bound together by the faculty of sensation.

    The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997

  • Thus he follows the windings of his memory as it re-presents the upheavals of his youth and the stages of his disorderly quest for wisdom.

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • You choose which sources you want to port to Flipboard, and it re-presents them in a highly readable format.

    Wired Top Stories Tim Carmody 2011

  • Volume 2 re-presents THE CRUSADES #10-20, as well as a collection-only section of extras: art, interviews and behind-the-scenes material never before published.

    Comic Book Resources 2010

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