Representation (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Representation can refer to:

• Representation (politics), one's ability to influence the poltical process
• Representation (arts), the depiction and ethical concerns of construction in visual arts and literature.
• Representative democracy
• Group representation, a way of viewing a mathematical group in some more concrete way
• Knowledge representation, a search for formal ways to describe knowledge presented in informal terms (a prerequisite for its handling as computation)

Representation can also refer to:

• The logical meaning of an object in object-oriented programming
• Representation is also a key topic in the philosophy of mind and in social psychology.