presentationismn.
/ˌprɛznˈteɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /prɛznˈteɪʃ(ə)ˌnɪz(ə)m/, /priˌzɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)ˌnɪz(ə)m/, /priznˈteɪʃ(ə)ˌnɪz(ə)m/ Philosophy and Psychology. Now historical.
The doctrine or theory that in perception the mind has immediate cognition of the object. Cf. representationism n.
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presentationisma1842
representationalism1846
presentationalism1855
a1842 Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. (1846) 820/1 His doctrine of perception is..one of immediate cognition, under the form of real presentationism.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 657 If the reader wants a name to characterise this system, he may call it the system of Absolute or Thorough-going presentationism.
1870 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. (new ed.) 96 Hamilton applies the distinction, as already seen..in distinguishing the theories of External Perception. His own view is Presentationism; he holds that the consciousness of external reality is immediate like the consciousness of colour, touch, or resistance.
1924 G. F. Stout Psychology Introd. ii. 46 It has been named by Dr. Ward ‘presentationism’.
1963 W. H. Hay et al. Reason & Common Good v. 66 Whitehead started with a marked preference for sense objects. This is obviously a hang-over from old fashioned presentationism.
1996 Canad. Psychol. (Nexis) Aug. 137 Here he went beyond Lyall, however, in asserting an unequivocal direct realism (or presentationism), as opposed to the less direct, intuition-mediated, realism that Lyall had inherited from Reid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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