How To Use Presentism In A Sentence
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This solid study challenges such self satisfied presentism.
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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.
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He must also ask this question to avoid the error of anachronism (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
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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.
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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
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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.
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The presentism of many essayists also creates conflicting interpretations.
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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
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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
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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?
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Their historical presentism is kind of funny actually.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
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In contrast to the radical Heraclitean view of presentism, the Parmenidean eternalist picture on the far right lacks these arrows and indicates that there is no more special about the temporal present (the now) than the spatial present (the here).
Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
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But donning the robes of the moralist presents problems of its own, notably the problem of Presentism, that is judging historical figures by contemporary moral standards.
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A discussion about presentism is appropriate for an issue of Praxis about the relation between Romantic-period writers and contemporary culture.
Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research and the Classroom: Introduction
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While such presentism gives his work immediacy, it also risks limiting historical issues to current concerns.
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First, the individual must have the capacity to live in the moment or a sense of presentism; gratification must be immediate and functionally specific because there is no tomorrow in the world of fashion or desire.
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Ironically, during the time of a recession, absenteeism will decrease but presentism, that is being at work but not performing at optimum capacity, will increase and this not only affects the mental health of staff but also the profitability of the company," Prof Cooper said.
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None was delighted by the question, because it required judging the past by the standards of today — a fallacy disparaged as "presentism" by social scientists.
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