presentationism

== English == === Etymology === From presentation +‎ -ism. === Noun === presentationism (uncountable) (philosophy) The doctrine that the mind is capable of grasping the substance and reality of objects, beyond the sensory stimuli they present. 1904, Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount), The Criticism of Categories (page 48) Presentationism, the seizing upon feeling and by a sort of abstraction converting it into a self-subsisting phenomenon divorced from the movement of reflection which gives it its meaning. ==== Related terms ==== presentationist