appresentation
appresentation noun: the intentional feature by which something indirectly given to consciousness is experienced as co-present or implied alongside what is directly perceived.
Noun
appresentation (uncountable)
- The intentional feature by which something indirectly given to consciousness is experienced as co-present or implied alongside what is directly perceived.
- 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
- 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 45
Antonyms of appresentation
Origin of appresentation
From German Appräsentation, coined by Edmund Husserl from appräsentieren, from Latin ad- + praesentatio.
Questions about appresentation
- What does appresentation mean?
- Appresentation means the intentional feature by which something indirectly given to consciousness is experienced as co-present or implied alongside what is directly perceived.
- What part of speech is appresentation?
- Appresentation is a noun.
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