concept of representation

collocation in English

meaningsofconceptandrepresentation

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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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representation
noun
uk
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/
a person or organization that speaks, acts, or is present officially for ...
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(Definition ofconceptandrepresentationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His work also serves as a critique of semiotic approaches to music, and questions theconceptofrepresentation.
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Thatconceptofrepresentationshould have gone out during the past century.
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This is a negation of theconceptofrepresentationon the basis of taxation.
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Very often, the term is used in a broad sense to embrace both the contract between the principal and agent, and theconceptofrepresentation.
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A more critical approach to the integral role of sound recording and reproduction in relation to concepts of representation is needed.
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Vesely challenges thisconceptofrepresentation, and widens it as a spectrum that ranges from the explicitness of our world down to implicit levels of articulation.
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The theories of the mind developed recently by neuroscientists help us understand, meanwhile, why investigations into this mental "event" necessarily invoke concepts of representation and narrative.
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Scottish concepts of representation had traditionally emphasized the duty of ' commissioners ' to lobby for the elites that had elected them rather than to act as independent representatives.
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Concepts of representation become meaningless if we are not.
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Using this approach one can take any concepts of representation theory and generalize them to the case of spherical pair.
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