What's the difference between representation and simulacrum?

Representation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
  • (n.) That which represents.
  • (n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
  • (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
  • (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
  • (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
  • (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
  • (n.) The state of being represented.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (2) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (4) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (5) The predominant specific aberrations in gliomas were an over-representation of chromosome 7 (13 cases) and an under-representation of chromosome 10 (16 cases).
  • (6) The Fink-Heimer techniques were used to determine the neostriatal projections from cortical M1 and S1 physiologically identified representations of the forepaw.
  • (7) Electrophysiological methods were used to determine changes in the neural representation of the binocular visual field at the paired midbrain optic tecta and in the tectal projection of pairs of corresponding retinal loci at various developmental points between these ages.
  • (8) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
  • (9) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
  • (10) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
  • (11) The correlation is likely to reflect language representation.
  • (12) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
  • (13) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.
  • (14) We compared only patterns of labeling resulting from injections into similar parts of the frequency representation in different fields to insure that observed differences in patterns of labeling did not simply reflect differences in the frequency representation at the injection sites.
  • (15) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
  • (16) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
  • (17) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
  • (18) Among the theoretical proposals put forward to account for the observed disorders, those relating to a disturbance of the action planning process and to that of the internal representation of context are compatible with the observed memory disorders.
  • (19) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
  • (20) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.

Simulacrum


Definition:

  • (n.) A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Theoretically parents go off and let their children navigate this simulacrum of a city state, which looks more like a shopping centre than a city.
  • (2) I am sure I am not alone in feeling rather "had" by the simulacrum of sex that contemporary culture is whacking out the whole time.
  • (3) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
  • (4) The tourists kept up with their penitential circuit of the site on the prescribed route, while I examined the broken ground where the old visitor centre and the foot tunnel under the abandoned road are being returned to a simulacrum of the natural.
  • (5) Sure, there's a sacrifice in leaving real tobacco behind for a mere simulacrum.
  • (6) But even to my non-medical eye, I can see that this travesty, this sub-Barbie, has been transformed into a fair simulacrum of what Zaria had been born with.
  • (7) He once appeared as a cartoon simulacrum of himself in The Simpsons along with writers Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon, John Updike and others; and also played himself in Family Guy and a US senator in Tim Robbins' movie Bob Roberts .
  • (8) Human rights campaigners consider the plan an unacceptable simulacrum of actually closing the facility, as it retains indefinite detention without charge for the residual 56 detainees, the practice that spurred them to oppose Guantánamo in the first place.
  • (9) "My fear is it's a simulacrum of meaningful reform," said Sascha Meinrath, a vice president of the New America Foundation, an influential Washington think tank, and the director of the Open Technology Institute, who also attended.