Representative vs Representamen - What's the difference?
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Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.
A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
One that is taken as typical of its class.
(US, politics) A member of the .
Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.
(rfc-def) A representation, a thing serving to represent something (as to an interpreting mind). It is a representation in the sense of something which represents'', as opposed to its ''operation or relation'' of representing, and also as opposed to a ''process or activity of representing, which produces it. (The produced representamen can itself seem or be a process or activity, for example a song or a theatrical performance, or a rock's tumbling in an informative way, or a logical argument).
* circa'' 1897 : [aut.] and Justus Buchler [ed.], ''Philosophical Writings of Peirce'', chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of Logic”, page 99 (from a ''circa'' 1897 manuscript (''CP'' 2.227–9), first published in the 1940 selection ''The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings'', and later reprinted ''sic in 1955 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York; ISBN 0486202178, 9780486202174)
* (William Hamilton)
Representamen is a related term of representative.
As nouns the difference between representative and representamen
is that representative is one who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation while representamen is a representation, a thing serving to represent something (as to an interpreting mind). It is a representation in the sense of something which represents, as opposed to its operation or relation of representing, and also as opposed to a process or activity of representing, which produces it. (The produced representamen can itself seem or be a process or activity, for example a song or a theatrical performance, or a rock's tumbling in an informative way, or a logical argument).As an adjective representative
is typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.representative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
- If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore. — Texas State Senator Carl Parker.
Noun
(en noun)- I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
- She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
- All representatives face re-election every two years.
Synonyms
* rep * See alsorepresentamen
English
Noun
(en-noun)- A sign, or representamen , is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
Quotations
* "I confine the word representation'' to the operation of a sign or its ''relation'' to the object ''for'' the interpreter of the representation. The concrete subject that represents I call a sign or a ''representamen''." — , v. 1, paragraph 540.Eprint. * "Possibly there may be Representamens that are not Signs." — C. S. Peirce, "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic", 1903, the v. 2, pp. 272-3.
Eprint. * "It is the science of what is quasi-necessarily true of the representamina of any scientific intelligence in order that they may hold good of any object, that is, may be true." — C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers v. 2, paragraph 229.
Eprint. * Four instances of "representamina" used by , Four Ages of Understanding (2001, U of Toronto Press), p. 726, Google Books limited preview
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