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representationist

  • a word derived from representationalism.
    representationalism
    noun
    the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object.

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If we have proved him to be a representationist, he cannot be held to be an intuitionist.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

To accuse the representationist of maintaining a doctrine more repugnant to common sense than this, or in any way different from it, would be both erroneous and unjust.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

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