representamenn.
/ˌrɛprᵻzɛnˈteɪmɛn/, /ˌrɛprᵻzɛnˈtɑːmɛn/, U.S. /ˌrɛprəˌzɛnˈteɪmən/, /ˌrɛprəzənˈteɪmən/ Philosophy.
A thing which stands for or denotes another; a sign, a symbol; an image.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun]
thoughtOE
thingOE
conceita1393
imagea1393
concept1479
conception1526
suppositiona1529
idee1542
idea1585
conceivement1599
project1600
representationa1602
notion1607
phantasma1620
conceptus1643
species1644
notice1654
revolution1675
representamen1677
vorstellung1807
brain-stuff1855
ideation1876
think1886
artefact1923
construct1933
mind1966
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun]
huea1000
imagination1340
imagea1393
portraiturea1393
trowc1460
fume1531
imaginary1594
phantasm1594
trajection1594
representationa1602
idolum1619
object1651
tablature1661
fancy1663
representamen1677
phantom1686
presentment1817
fantasy1823
projection1836
visuality1841
thought-picture1844
imago1863
vestige1885
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. Proem 5 A singular first notion or idea is the simple imitamen or representamen of some one individual thing in the mind.
1846 W. Hamilton in T. Reid Wks. 877 The representation, or, to speak more properly, the representamen, itself as an..object exhibited to the mind.
1867 Daedalus May 293 Representamen—that which refers to ground, correlate, and interpretant.
a1914 C. S. Peirce in Coll. Papers (1931) I. v. 285 I confine the word representation to the operation of a sign or its relation to the subject for the interpreter of the representation. The concrete subject that represents I call a sign or a representamen.
1937 Proc. & Addr. Amer. Philos. Assoc. 11 115 Something becomes a representamen by functioning as a substitute for some object in virtue of being interpreted as indicating that object.
2004 E. San Juan Working through Contradict. viii. 304 As Peirce taught us, the process of knowing proceeds through the discovery of the ground which connects the sign (representamen) to the world (object) via the interpretant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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