presentiation
presentiation noun: the 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.
Noun
presentiation (uncountable)
- The 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, §44
- Synonyms:
- presentification, representation
Synonyms of presentiation
Antonyms
Forms of presentiation
| alternative form | præsentation |
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Origin of presentiation
From German Präsentation, from Latin praesentatio. In the phenomenological sense, a calque of German Vergegenwärtigung.
Questions about presentiation
- What does presentiation mean?
- Presentiation means the 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.
- What part of speech is presentiation?
- Presentiation is a noun.
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