representamen

listen to the pronunciation of representamen
İngilizce - İngilizce
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). Compare sign

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.

representamen

    Etimoloji

    () From New Latin repraesentamenThe Century Dictionary puts the asterisk of conjecture before the New Latin form repraesentamen, but the word appears: * in the nominative singular, repraesentamen, ** in the 1703 Latin work Phosphorus philosophicus auctior, seu logica contracta Claubergiana by Johannes Flender, 1703, (via Google Books), column 1: "...sive, cogitatio, quæ est imago et repræsentamen ejus rei, quam concipimus, quô modô forma seu essentia ideae consistit in representatione rei; sive in eo, quòd sit rei repræsentamen, ..." (italic emphases in original), which is quoted with some rephrasing in Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., by Sir William Hamilton, arranged and edited by Orlando Williams Wight, 1850, (via Google Books), as follows: " '...prout est cogitatio intellectus hanc vel illam rem representans,—quo modo forma seu essentia ideae consistit in representatione rei, sive in eo quod sit representamen vel imago ejus rei quam concipimus.' (Phosph. Philos. § 5.)" (italic emphases in original). ** in a 1699 Latin letter from Johann Bernoulli to Gottfried Leibniz, published in Leibniz's Mathematische Schriften, v. 3, letter XCV, (via Google Books Halle edition of 1850): "Si per similitudinem intelligas ideam ipsam seu repraesentamen, quo objectum menti sistitur tanquam in pictura, eam sane non exsibilant Cartesiani." * in the accusative singular, repraesentamen, ** in Hermannus Venema, Institutiones historiae ecclesiae..., Tomus IV, 1780, (via Google Books): "...sed sacrificii cruci repraesentamen et commemorationem...". * in the nominative plural, repraesentamina, ** in Benedict de (or Baruch) Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 1670, (via Google Books), and as reprinted in Opera quae supersunt onmia, v. 3, 1846, (via Google Books): "...quod alicuius boni sint repraesentamina...". * in the genitive singular, repraesentaminis, ** in Gottfried Leibniz (1664-1716), in a collection of his works Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Volume 2 (1879), see (via Google Books): "...a quo nihil repraesentaminis possim tollere...", and further examples on , 222, 225, 226, 227, and 228. * in the ablative singular, repraesentamine ** in Gisbertus Voetius (Gijsbert Voet) (1589-1676), in a selection Tractatus selecti de politica ecclesiastica (1885), at foot of page (via Google Books): "De repraesentamine Ecclesiae..."., from Latin repraesentare, "to bring back", "to display", "to represent", "to pay immediately", "to perform immediately".