See also:

• PRESENTATIONISM (from Lat. prae-esse, praesens, present)

PRESENTATIONISM (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. prae-esse, praesens, See also:

• PRESENT

present)  , a philosophical See also:

• TERM

term used in various senses deriving from the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense of the term " presentation." According to G . F . Stout (cf . See also:

• MANUAL

Manual of See also:

• PSYCHOLOGY
• PSYCHOLOGY (>Guxrl, the mind or soul, and X yos, theory)

Psychology, i . 57), presentations are " what-ever constituents or our See also:

• TOTAL

total experience at any moment directly determine the nature of the See also:

• OBJECT

object as it is perceived or thought of at that moment." In See also:

• BALDWIN, JAMES MARK (1861– )
• BALDWIN, ROBERT (1804–1858)

Baldwin's See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy, vol. ii., a presentation is " an object in the See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form under which it is cognized at any given moment of perceptual or ideational See also:

• PROCESS

process." This, the widest See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition of the term, due largely to See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

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

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

work of See also:

• ART

art, a saleable commodity, a representation of a See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, &c.) . Presentation is thus essentially a cognitive process . Hence the most important use of the term " See also:

• PRESENTATIONISM (from Lat. prae-esse, praesens, present)

presentationism," which is defined by Ward, in Mind, N.S . (1893), ii . 58, as " a See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine the gist of which is that all the elements of psychical See also:

• LIFE

life are primarily and ultimately cognitive elements." This use takes See also:

• PRECEDENCE (from Lat. praecedere, to go before, precede)

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

equivalent to phenomenon (q.v.) . Ward traces the doctrine in his sense to See also:

• HUME, ALEXANDER (c. 1557-1609)
• HUME, DAVID (1711-1776)
• HUME, JOSEPH (1777-1855)

Hume, to whom the mind is a " See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre " in which perceptions appear and vanish continually (see See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

Green and See also:

• GROSE, FRANCIS (c. 1730–1791)

Grose edition of the See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise, i .

534) . The See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main problem is as to whether psychic activity is " presented " or not . Ward holds that it is not presented or presentable See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save indirectly . For the problems connected with Presentation and Presentationism see especially the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article PSYCHOLOGY and authorities there quoted .