Representamen

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ËŒrÉ›p.rÉ™.zÉ›n.ˈteɪ.mÉ™n/
• enPR: rÄ•p'-rÉ™-zÄ•n-tāʹ-mÉ™n
• Rhymes: -eɪmÉ™n

Origin

From Latin repraesentamen

Full definition of representamen

Noun

1. A representation, a thing serving to represent something (as to an interpreting mind). It is a representation in the sense of something which represents, as opposed to its operation or relation of representing, and also as opposed to a process or activity of representing, which produces it. (The produced representamen can itself seem or be a process or activity, for example a song or a theatrical performance, or a rock's tumbling in an informative way, or a logical argument).
• circa 1897: Charles Sanders Peirce aut. and Justus Buchler ed., Philosophical Writings of Peirce, chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of Logic”, page 99 (from a circa 1897 manuscript (CP 2.227–9), first published in the 1940 selection The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings, and later reprinted sic in 1955 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York; ISBN 0486202178, 9780486202174)A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.

Related terms

• represent
• representable
• representant
• representation
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