representationistn.adj.

1842 W. Hamilton Diss. in T. Reid Wks. II. 817/2 The Representationists, as denying to consciousness the cognisance of aught beyond a merely subjective phænomenon, are likewise Idealists.

1847 Blackwood's Mag. 62 242 Reid, so far from having overthrown the representative theory, was himself a representationist.

1885 A. Seth Sc. Philos. 145 Kant is, indeed, the very prince of Representationists.

1924 Philos. Rev. 33 495 Is he, that is to say, a mental or a neutral representationist?

2001 M. Rowlands Nature of Consciousness vii. 158 Irrespective of the status of phenomenal properties, the representationist should not regard representational properties as objects of consciousness.

1846 J. D. Morell Hist. & Crit. View Speculative Philos. II. v. 37 The great argument, upon which the representationist system rests is this—that things which are not homogeneous can have no mutual influence upon each other.

1940 H. H. Price Hume's Theory External World ii. 25 Hume is, of course, speaking of the Representationist philosophers of his own time.

1945 Philosophy 20 281 The book is devoted mainly to an examination of the representationist theory of perception in Descartes and Locke.

1999 J. N. Mohanty Reason & Trad. in Indian Thought ii. 38 On the representationist view—what would be directly presented is the form belonging to consciousness itself.