presentationistn.
/ˌprɛznˈteɪʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌprɛznˈteɪʃ(ə)nəst/, /ˌpriˌzɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)nəst/, /ˌpriznˈteɪʃ(ə)nəst/ Philosophy and Psychology. Now historical.
A person who holds the doctrine or theory of presentationism.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [noun] > doctrine of immediate cognition > adherent of
presentationist1846
presentationalist1895
1846 Sir W. Hamilton Note C in Reid's Wks. I. 816/1 The Presentationists or Intuitionists constitute the object, of which we are conscious in perception, into a sole, absolute, or total, object; in other words, reduce perception to an act of immediate or intuitive cognition.
1871 A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley x. 390 He is virtually a representationist as well as a presentationist.
1907 Athenæum 6 Apr. 407/1 Let him consider the whole ‘Presentationist’ controversy.
1908 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 11 232 To put it in my own way—in psychology, Mr. Bradley appears to be what I have called a presentationist.
1997 Sports Afield (Nexis) 1 June 152 He was beyond being a presentationist, reading not only the thought of the trout but the next thought of the trout which the trout had not yet thought.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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