Definitions For Representamen
Noun
REPRESENTAMEN (plural s or representamina) (semiotics) A representation; a thing serving to represent something.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." — w:charles sanders peirce, c. s. peirce, Lowell Lectures 1903, w:charles sanders peirce bibliography#cp, collected papers of charles sanders peirce, v. 1, paragraph 540. . "Possibly there may be Representamens that are not Signs." — C. S. Peirce, "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic", 1903, the w:charles sanders peirce bibliography#ep, essential peirce v. 2, pp. 272-3. . "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. . Four instances of "representamina" used by w:john deely, john deely, Four Ages of Understanding (2001, U of Toronto Press), p. 726, Google Books limited previewRelated terms
represent representable representant representation representativeEtymology
From {{uder, en, la, repraesentamen}}.See also
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The word Representamen is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends