presentative
Americanadjective
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(of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
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Ecclesiastical. admitting of or pertaining to presentation.
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Philosophy. immediately knowable; capable of being known without thought or reflection.
adjective
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philosophy
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able to be known or perceived immediately
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capable of knowing or perceiving in this way
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subject to or conferring the right of ecclesiastical presentation
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That we have a direct, immediate, presentative "face to face" knowledge of matter and mind in every act of consciousness is asserted again and again by Hamilton, in his "Philosophy of Perception."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
In concluding this short account of the errors of insight, I may observe that their range is obviously much greater than that of the previously considered classes of presentative illusion.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
Introspection is presentative in the sense that the reality constituting the object of cognition, the mind's present feeling, is as directly present to the knowing mind as anything can be conceived to be.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
He “hath no chapter, yet is presentative, and hath cure of souls; he hath a peculiar, and is not subject to the visitation of the bishop of the diocese.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Yet, supposing this to be so, we must still distinguish between the single presentative act of introspection and the representative belief growing out of it.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
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