{"id":28056,"date":"2025-03-27T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28056"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:36:59","slug":"what-makes-something-a-representation-of-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/27\/what-makes-something-a-representation-of-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes something a representation of other things?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2.jpg\" alt=\"What makes something a representation of other things?\" class=\"wp-image-28050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What makes something a representation of other things?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans. Humans do that. They use words, signs, and signals, and other humans either understand the representations or not. The key is that people making representations have to agree what represents what. Problems happen when they think they do but they don&#8217;t. Which is often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans. Humans do that. They use words, signs, and signals, and other humans either understand the representations or not. The key is that people making representations have to agree what represents what. Problems happen when they think they do but they don&#8217;t. Which is often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28068,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28056\/revisions\/28068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}