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COGNITIVE ABILITIES assimilation-accommodation cognitive abilities comparing (scanning) imposing mapping narrating perspective taking projecting representing signify Complete Term List

 

Dictionary Definition from Wordnet

1. (10) representation, mental representation, internal representation -- (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

 

 

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Working Definition:

Something that stands for or symbolizes something else. a synonym of an expression

Disciplinary Definitions:

"A structure or process in the mind that stands for something." 232. Thagard, Mind.

Comments:

This term in CS seems to be the precondition of signify/signification.

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