representationalismn.

1846 J. D. Morell Hist. & Crit. View Speculative Philos. II. v. 94 How is it possible to arrive at this real essential existence which is imagined and represented in our own minds? for the moment we attempt to do so scientifically, the old argument against representationalism returns, which again seems to shut us up within our own consciousness.

1899 E. S. Haldane J. F. Ferrier ii. 52 This system of ‘representationalism’, of representative ideas, necessarily leads to scepticism.

1939 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. n.s. 39 183 One is reminded of Berkeley's error. He rejected representationalism, but retained representations.

1968 Philos. Sci. 35 64 He regards his own ontology as a phase in a development of insight which consists, at least negatively, in the gradual elimination of three major errors: nominalism, reism, and representationalism.

2004 T. R. Machan Objectivity 6 Representationalism, idealism, nominalism, and anti-realist theories of truth cannot provide an adequate account of objectivity.

1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xii. 115 One could admire representationalism in the Old Masters... But in a modern?

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 113 Modern fallacies about abstraction, literary sentiment, representationalism, romantic contamination, etc. in music.

1965 Burlington Mag. Feb. 97/2 Jacques Villon is represented by a study..marking the moment of departure from representationalism.

1999 L. M. Scigaj Sustainable Poetry Pref. p. xiv The unspoken assumption..that environmental poems are restricted to a passive representationalism, a purely objective recording of incidents in the natural world.

2000 G. Graham Philos. of Arts (ed. 2) v. 95 People who are under the influence of a naïve representationalism sometimes complain that the faces and figures in so called ‘modern’ art do not look anything like the real thing.