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representativeness
representativeness In this historical usage, representativeness means how far a mental state depends on ideas or re-presented experience rather than immediate sensation or perception.
In this historical usage, representativeness means how far a mental state depends on ideas or re-presented experience rather than immediate sensation or perception. The passage uses it as a scale for classifying feelings, from simple bodily pleasures and pains linked to direct presentation up to emotions and sentiments shaped more by associated and abstract ideas.