symbolic representation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsymbolicandrepresentation
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symbolic
adjective
uk/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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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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We can only deduce, but never directly perceive, any 'symbolicrepresentation' that exists in the mind.
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As a consequence the editors did not leave much space for culture in the sense of aesthetic andsymbolicrepresentation.
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If it remains stable, common knowledge may have a meaningful linguistic/symbolicrepresentation, such as rules, as we will discuss in more detail shortly.
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Therefore, the songs can be naturally mapped onto asymbolicrepresentationwith dynamics that evolve both in space and time.
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The evaluation procedure is based on an effective fixpoint operator working on asymbolicrepresentation of infinite collections of first order linear logic formulas.
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The primary meaning of the hearth would be retained in the altar, as asymbolicrepresentationof the sacred centre of community.
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Thesymbolicrepresentationof distress is grounded in a wider cosmological context (designated before symbolic reality).
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The result is numerous 'readings' of immanent meaning, hermeneutic strategies of breadth (rather than depth) and an overriding concern with the processes ofsymbolicrepresentation.
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In order to state it we need asymbolicrepresentationof the horizontal cylinders.
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As such, experiential realism stands in contradistinction to an objectivist framework in which language is asymbolicrepresentationof objectively existing reality.
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We hypothesize that we can improve performance and adaptability through statistical means, while maintaining the transparency of a richsymbolicrepresentation.
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The elections served as asymbolicrepresentationof social hierarchies legitimising and representing power.
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None of these phenomena require the postulate that asymbolicrepresentationcan be created, stored, and used outside of the subject's phenomenal experience.
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Alternatives are important because designs are inevitably evaluated along multiple criteria, only some of which are, or can be, captured in a givensymbolicrepresentation.
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Non-exclusivity ofsymbolicrepresentationis by no means a denial of symbolic processes in language.
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This is accomplished through the construction of asymbolicrepresentationof the universe.
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At this stage it is convenient to introduce asymbolicrepresentationassociated to our system.
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An utterance contains asymbolicrepresentationof the linguistic information an agent transmits when performing a communicative act during a conversation.
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An explanatory model, then, is asymbolicrepresentationof distress applied to a particular case of human suffering or illness.
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