Presentationism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The doctrine that the mind is capable of grasping the substance and reality of objects, beyond the sensory stimuli they present. uncountable
"If presentationism is wrong, is not "science falsely so called" — can it be knowledge, can it give truth? Mr. Stirling does not afford us any clue, in this work, as to how he would reconcile the assumption of presentationism by science so fertile in results with the denial through philososophy ^([sic]) of the possibility of anything else than phenomenal experience."
Example
More examples"If presentationism is wrong, is not "science falsely so called" — can it be knowledge, can it give truth? Mr. Stirling does not afford us any clue, in this work, as to how he would reconcile the assumption of presentationism by science so fertile in results with the denial through philososophy ^([sic]) of the possibility of anything else than phenomenal experience."
Etymology
From presentation + -ism.
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