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See also:PRESENTATIONISM (from See also:Lat. prae-esse, praesens, See also:present) , a philosophical See also:term used in various senses deriving from the See also:general sense of the term " presentation." According to G. F. Stout (cf. See also:Manual of See also:Psychology, i. 57), presentations are " what-ever constituents or our See also:total experience at any moment directly determine the nature of the See also:object as it is perceived or thought of at that moment." In See also:Baldwin's See also:Dictionary of See also:Philosophy, vol. ii., a presentation is " an object in the See also:special See also:form under which it is cognized at any given moment of perceptual or ideational See also:process." This, the widest See also:definition of the term, due largely to See also:Professor See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, thus includes both perceptual and ideational processes. The term has, indeed, been narrowed so as to include ideation, the correlative " See also:representation " being utilized for ideal presentation, but in general the wider use is preferred. When the mind is cognizing an object, the object " presents " itself to the senses or to thought in one of a number of different forms (e.g. a picture is a See also:work of See also:art, a saleable commodity, a representation of a See also:house, &c.). Presentation is thus essentially a cognitive process. Hence the most important use of the term " presentationism," which is defined by Ward, in Mind, N.S. (1893), ii. 58, as " a See also:doctrine the gist of which is that all the elements of psychical See also:life are primarily and ultimately cognitive elements." This use takes See also:precedence of two others: (r) that of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, for presentative as opposed to representative theories of knowledge, and (2) that of some later writers who took it as See also:equivalent to phenomenon (q.v.). Ward traces the doctrine in his sense to See also:Hume, to whom the mind is a " See also:kind of See also:theatre " in which perceptions appear and vanish continually (see See also:Green and See also:Grose edition of the See also:Treatise, i. 534). The See also:main problem is as to whether psychic activity is " presented " or not. Ward holds that it is not presented or presentable See also:save indirectly.
For the problems connected with Presentation and Presentationism see especially the See also:article PSYCHOLOGY and authorities there quoted.
End of Article: PRESENTATIONISM (from Lat. prae-esse, praesens, present)
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