 A number of contributors to the debate have emphasised that scientific representation is an intentional concept, depending on factors such as a user’s intentions, purposes and objectives, contextual standards of accuracy, intended audiences, and community practices (see, for instance, Boesch 2017; Giere 2010; Mäki 2011; Suárez 2004; and van Fraassen 2008). We will discuss these in detail below. At this point it needs to be emphasised that framing the problem in terms of a biconditional does not preclude such factors to be part of the analysis. The blank can be filled with a \((n+2)\)-ary relation \(C(S, T, x_1, \ldots, x_n)\) (\(C\) for “constitutes”), where \(n \ge 0\) is a natural number and the \(x_i\) are factors such as intentions and purposes.