Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being represented.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being represented.
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- adjective Capable of being
represented .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressible in symbolic form
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Examples
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In representing an object to himself, in giving a form and a continuing existence to it, he dominates it .... as soon as he crosses these limits, as soon as the object is no longer representable, that is, as soon as man ventures beyond the limits of representation, he feels lost and prey to the terrors of the objective world.
Indifferent Freedom 2000
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"the Idea is not yet the concept of an object which submits the world to the requirements of representation, but rather a brute presence which can be invoked in the world only in the function of that which is not 'representable' in things" (59).
Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_ 2008
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I think that it is more important to tell a plausible story than to tell a mathematically representable story.
Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I wish the Egyptian people a government representable of the people.
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The far future of our universe is therefore representable by de Sitter space-time, and in this type of space-time the future timelike boundary is a spacelike hypersurface.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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My service can include representing you as well once I judge your material is representable -- and the good thing is, no commission.
Jeff Rivera: Literary Manager Ken Atchity on How 'Literary Agencies Must Change' 2010
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My service can include representing you as well once I judge your material is representable -- and the good thing is, no commission.
Jeff Rivera: Literary Manager Ken Atchity on How 'Literary Agencies Must Change' 2010
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And the subjective ones are part of the contents of our thoughts, and therefore (by our earlier agreement) representable as brain states.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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My service can include representing you as well once I judge your material is representable -- and the good thing is, no commission.
Jeff Rivera: Literary Manager Ken Atchity on How 'Literary Agencies Must Change' 2010
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My service can include representing you as well once I judge your material is representable -- and the good thing is, no commission.
Jeff Rivera: Literary Manager Ken Atchity on How 'Literary Agencies Must Change' 2010
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