Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe intentional feature by which something indirectly given to consciousness is experienced as co-present or implied alongside what is directly perceived.
Appresentation means that "absent" data is intended as co-present with a directly perceivable term within the unity of consciousness (Husserl).
2003, Benjamin Stuck, “Symbolization and appresentational orders in lifeworldly meaning constitution”, in Semiotica, volume 260, page 451 more example
In the case of the other Ego... we have here an appresentation that, while never becoming a presentation, does make something co-present that is not itself originally given.
1931, Edmund Husserl, translated by Dorion Cairns, Cartesian Meditations, Martinus Nijhoff, published 1960, §50
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinad-
- GermanAppräsentation
- Englishappresentation
From German Appräsentation, coined by Edmund Husserl from appräsentieren, from Latin ad- + praesentatio.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French apprésentation
- apprésentationintentional co-presence of what is not directly given
German Appräsentation
- Appräsentationintentional co-presence of what is not directly given
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