Literary notes about representation (AI summary)
In literature the term "representation" bridges multiple domains, from politics and philosophy to art and science. It is invoked to discuss how abstract ideas or social structures are depicted, as in debates over political participation and governance [1, 2, 3, 4], while simultaneously serving as a tool for expressing mathematical or logical relationships, such as the depiction of geometric loci or symbolic propositions [5, 6, 7]. Authors also employ the term to highlight the connection between a physical object and its ideal form, whether through artistic rendering of mythic figures and sacred emblems [8, 9, 10] or through the imitative processes of drama and poetry [11, 12]. Moreover, in epistemological and aesthetic reflections, representation is seen as the intermediary through which human perception and intellect engage with the world [13, 14, 15].
- Chapter VII—Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill - That the principles of that system were an equality of representation, and dependence of the members of Congress on the States.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - For neither he nor you can have any claim or title to Political Representation .
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine - The idea of an actual representation of all classes of the people, by persons of each class, is altogether visionary.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - Representation of geometric loci by equations.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Representation of Biliteral Propositions of Existence and of Relation 35 IV.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - Representation of Propositions of Existence in terms of x and m , or of y and m .
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - A myrtle was also a type, but of the female, because its leaf is a close representation of the vesica piscis .
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman and M.R.C.S.E. John Newton - There is a charming representation of Lachesis, which depicts her in all the grace of youth and beauty.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens - On a vase (Etruscan) in the Hamilton Collection there is an admirable representation of Pandora opening her box, from which all evils are escaping.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway - If, however, the representation be of neither kind, the poet may answer,—This is how men say the thing is.'
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - On the contrary, the truth and formal essence of things is as it is, because it exists by representation as such in the intellect of God.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - For such an object could not be represented either in space or in time; and without these conditions intuition or representation is impossible.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - We may say with truth that in the majority of cases the coming representation will have been either habitual, recent, or vivid, and will be congruous.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
