Representationalism vs Representationalist - What's the difference?
representationalism | representationalist |
(philosophy) The belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.
(arts) Realistic representation of the world in art.
(philosophy) A subscriber to the philosophy of representationalism.
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, passage=It seems plausible that the disagreement between the competing representationalist theories traces back to an underlying disagreement about the nature of mental representation. }}
(arts) An artist who aims to produces realistic depictions.