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シミュラクム
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シミュラクム

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Also known as simulacra, dummy, fake, replica, dummy object, example object, placeholder, filler

thumb|Image of a real apple (left), and plastic food model apple (right). The fake apple is a simulacrum. A simulacrum (: simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing. The word was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god. By the late 19th century, it had gathered a secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Literary critic Fredric Jameson of

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Subclass of
object
Image
Contraffazione alimentare.gif
Said to be same as
Ersatz good
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has characteristic
degeneracy
partially coincident with
toy
facet of
Platonism
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