NOUN
- the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled
How To Use presentism In A Sentence
- This solid study challenges such self satisfied presentism.
- For example, A. N. Prior, in seeking to mount a defense of presentism - the doctrine that there are no future or past objects - encountered the problem of individuals that no longer exist.
- He must also ask this question to avoid the error of anachronism (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
- There are two camps opposed to presentism, the camp that says the past and present are real, and the camp that says the past, present, and future are real.
- I don't agree with everything Eric Jager says in his LA Times op-ed piece, but I will second his strike at "presentism" or our predisposition to view contemporary times as the summit of knowledge and enlightenment looming above the ignorance and intolerance of past ages. Archive 2006-01-01
- Presentism and the growing-past theories must suppose that this event is both real and unreal because it's real for A but not real for B.
- The presentism of many essayists also creates conflicting interpretations.
- Sathekge said: "Friday is going to be a difficult day and companies that have not given their staff some leeway may be affected by presentism, that is staff are at work but not working. IOL: News
- A glance back at Figure 1 reminds us that presentism and possibilism suppose that one plane of simultaneity is uniquely metaphysically important. Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
- Are we engaging in "presentism" and failing to understand what was done in other times and places if we assume that unmarried men who have no apparent intimate relationships with women had a homosexual orientation whether acted upon or not? Was Washington Irving gay?
