presentednessn.
/prᵻˈzɛntᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /priˈzɛn(t)ᵻdnᵻs/, /prəˈzɛn(t)ᵻdnᵻs/ Chiefly Philosophy.
The fact of an object, etc., being presented or given; (esp. in the philosophy of C. D. Broad) the awareness of this givenness at the actual time of presentation.
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1907 Mind 16 61 This background of feeling is the presentedness of the given viewed from its subjective side.
1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place v. 255 The premise..might be derived from an uncritical jump from ‘presentedness’ to ‘presentness’.
1933 Mind 42 307 It is part of the notion of a specious present that a certain characteristic, which we will call ‘presentedness’, has a maximum value at a certain point in it, and tails off to nothing in two opposite directions within it, viz. towards the point where the perceived past merges into the remembered past, and towards the point where the anticipated future merges into the perceived future.
1951 Mind 60 162 ‘Presentedness’ seems to be Broad's name for the characteristic Hume called ‘force and vivacity’.
1973 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 41 56 If we will see the configuration of conditions..as the work of God's providence, as the presentedness of the world to man as good, as friendly, as full of grace.
1991 Noûs 25 569 The awareness of one's perceiving which is implicit in one's awareness..of the presentedness of that to which one's perceiving refers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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