Representationalists like Tye and Dretske distinguish between the content of a representation and the existence of the represented property in the world, so misrepresentation is not contradiction.

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Content (of a representation)(in philosophy of mind): What a mental representation is *about* or *means*—for example, a mental image of a red apple has the content 'red apple.'
Representationalists(as a school of thought about how perception works): Philosophers who believe that perception works like a mental representation—your brain creates an internal picture or model of the world based on sensory input.
Tye and Dretske(as names of philosophers developing representationalist theory): Two contemporary philosophers (Fred Tye and Fred Dretske) who study how the mind represents the world; they're known for developing theories about how our conscious experiences work.
contradiction(Relevant to distinguishing contradictions from false contingent statements in the logic student variant of the preface paradox.): A statement that is necessarily false in all interpretations; in this context, specifically the negation of a tautology or any falsehood drawn from a list containing only tautologies and contradictions.

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