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presentational a.|prɪzɛnˈteɪʃənəl|
[f. presentation + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to presentation (orig. in sense 7). Also absol.
1886E. J. Hamilton Mental Science xviii. 131 The whole doctrine is more comprehensive than that of presentational realism, and..may be designated by the unrestricted term ‘presentationalism’. 1907Athenæum 18 May 610/3 The subjective self is..an inference from certain presentational changes that cannot be ascribed to physical stimuli, and Ward's view is justified. 1928Daily Tel. 19 July 18/3 The intelligent theatres of New York..show an admirable sympathy both for good European drama and new forms of presentational art. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality ii. iv. 170 Perception which merely, by means of a sensum, rescues from vagueness a contemporary spatial region, in respect to its spatial shape and its spatial perspective from the percipient, will be called ‘perception in the mode of presentational immediacy’. 1942S. K. Langer Philos. in New Key iv. 97 The meanings given through language are successively understood, and gathered into a whole by the process called discourse; the meanings of all other symbolic elements that compose a larger, articulate symbol are understood only through the meaning of the whole... This kind of semantic may be called ‘presentational symbolism’, to characterize its essential distinction from discursive symbolism, or ‘language’ proper. 1958C. H. Whitman Homer & Heroic Tradition vi. 107 It is by means of the image and the poetic symbol..that language is made presentational. Ibid. 127 If metaphor flags and facts prevail, the presentational is lost, and the poem sinks to prose. 1959W. A. Christian Interpr. Whitehead's Metaphysics iii. 54 For occasions of a relatively high grade of complexity, a contemporary region may be given in presentational immediacy. That is, the region may be perceived as the locus of sensa, and as the subject to mathematical relations. 1962Listener 3 May 765/1 A personal style, an effective or original rhetoric, a brilliant presentational technique are cheerfully accepted in lieu of any real human adequacy. 1975Nature 23 Oct. 723/1 An author with the technical knowledge and presentational skill of John Maddox needs no introduction. 1980Times 24 May 14/3 It all was done for ‘presentational’ reasons..not merely to make the Americans feel good, but..to show solidarity.
Hence presenˈtationalism, -alist (see quots.).
1886[see presentational a.] 1895Funk's Standard Dict., Presentationalism, the doctrine that man has an immediate perception of all the elemental forms of entity, as space, time, substance, and power; natural realism, in an extended sense. Ibid., Presentationalist. |