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What does representationalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.
  2. (art) Realistic representation of the world in art.
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And that is what is accomplished by the specifically representationalist part of strong representationalism does, not by the functionalist part.
The second reason why pragmatists have dismissed representationalism has to do with concerns in the theory of knowledge.
George Maciunas has emphasized the importance of their work, expounding a theory against representationalism in art, semiotics, illusionism, and abstraction.
Here, representationalism borders on musical Impressionism, a concept Wagner discussed with Auguste Renoir.
It combines elements of both representationalism and higher-order theory but does so in a way that varies interestingly from the more standard versions of either.
Outside representationalism, what we are dealing with could not be culture as such.

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