representing

re·pre·sent·ing
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/ɹɛpɹɪˈzɛntɪŋ/

noun

An act of representation.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of represent
nounrepresenting (plural representings)

plural representings

  1. An act of representation.

    One ends up with a noumenal representation that has a phenomenal representation as its content, whereby the phenomenal representation, in turn, has as its content a temporally ordered sequence of representings, i.e. of mental episodes.

    2017, Anil Gomes, Andrew Stephenson, Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self
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