Figuration vs Representation - What's the difference?
figuration | representation |
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Mixture of concords and discords.
That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
As nouns the difference between figuration and representation
is that figuration is the act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form while representation is representation.figuration
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* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d