representationaladj.

1850 R. Blakey Hist. Philos. Mind III. xiii. 188 To give something like method to our observations, we shall notice Reid's doctrines under four points of view; 1st, His ideas of the representational hypothesis connected with perception.

1858 W. R. Pirie Inq. Human Mind ii. 46 The representational school of the Greek philosophers.

1922 A. K. Rogers Eng. & Amer. Philos. since 1800 vi. 343 A realistic account of knowledge which attempts to avoid alike the immediate or apprehensional theory of natural realism, and a dualistic or representational theory.

1965 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 26 36 Macintosh used the language of representational Pragmatism.

2000 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 60 439 Representational theories of mind cannot individuate the sense modalities in a principled manner.

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Representational, pertaining to, or containing representation.

1859 G. Rawlinson in tr. Herodotus Hist. II. v. 265 Even after their introduction [sc. of phonetic letters] the old representational picture-writing was not abandoned.

1867 H. Bushnell in Hours at Home Nov. 5 I speak of the representational office they are designed to fill.

1876 W. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 134 If..religion exist only in the relative and representational form.

1943 Jrnl. Psychol. 15 99 The use of such directly representational methods as bags of pebbles or tally sticks..which allow exact representation of number.

1996 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 55 565 Qiu Jun argued that the use of representational images as vessels for the spirit in the temple was a Buddhist practice.

2002 L. Guinier & G. Torres Miner's Canary vi. 171 The complexity of the representational relationship in a multiracial democracy.

1910 Burlington Mag. Jan. 207/2 The time had not come to re-establish a system of purely decorative expression; the alternative representational idea of art was not yet worked out.

1923 Gramophone June 25/2 Music to assert itself has become representational; painting to assert itself has become non-representational.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iv. 257 Of abstract, geometrical, or non-representational motives in Han art, the lozenge and its derivative, the zigzag band, are perhaps most widespread.

1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside v. xviii. 191 Even within our present century, and the demise of our representational art, the natural world continues to inspire our artists.

1987 Cape Cod Life Apr.–May 109/1 Some of her works are representational, although not photoreal.

2006 Art Rev. Aug. 22/1 Departing from earlier representational motifs of birds, cages and decorative flower prints, Innis's new work is suggestive of microscopic interior biologies rendered in crimson-reds.

1867 H. Bushnell in Hours at Home Nov. 6 The objects of nature are relationally or representationally made.

1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 378 In sculpture and painting the particular and the universal are also fused in the objects and persons representationally portrayed.

2001 B. T. Bowman et al. Eager to Learn v. 218 In the ‘play’ session, the children tended to play with the toys both functionally and representationally.