Meanings
alternative præsentation
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given; a synonym of presentification; an intuitive consciousness that renders something co-present or represented.
By presentiation I understand every experience in which an object is itself "in person" before us, whether as a physical thing in perception, or as a phantasy object in phantasy.
1931, Edmund Husserl, translated by Dorion Cairns, Cartesian Meditations, Martinus Nijhoff, published 1960, §44Synonyms: presentification, representation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given; a synonym of presentification; an intuitive consciousness that renders something co-present or represented.
Origin
- GermanVergegenwärtigung
- Latinpraesentatio
- GermanPräsentation
- Englishpresentiation
From German Präsentation, from Latin praesentatio. In the phenomenological sense, a calque of German Vergegenwärtigung.
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