the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled
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presentism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
Examples of presentism
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And what I'm trying to offer is that people can come to understand presentism.
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Presentism is also related to the problematic question of history and moral judgments.
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This view of time is given the name presentism by philosophers.
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Presentism entails that the A Series is fundamental and that the B Series alone is not sufficient.
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There are many critics of this application of presentism.
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In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal.
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Among historians, the orthodox view may be that reading modern notions of morality into the past is to commit the error of presentism.
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Presentism is a school of philosophy that holds that neither the future nor the past exist, and there are no non-present objects.
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I disagree that history necessarily has to commit the sins of presentism by judging events or people by today's standards, to seem relevant.
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- The doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled
- Presentism is a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past. ...
- In the philosophy of time, presentism is the theory that only present things exist, and future and past things are unreal. The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally. ...
- The belief that only current phenomena are relevant; Interpreting past phenomena in terms of current beliefs and knowledge
- (presentist) Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs
- An ideology that argues that history should be studied for the purpose of understanding the circumstances of the present day. ...
- Applying current thinking and concepts to interpretations of past events or intentions.
