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- Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist.
Nevertheless in these presentist texts there are brief, rather pointless attempts made by by Hawkes and Grady, a few others, to muddy this clear point.— The Valve
It gives even more ground to concede, implicitly, that Theory may well amount to presentist bias or blinkers, but somehow†"but how would we know a thing like this? â€" especialy invigorating and peculiarly authentic.— The Valve
Lippmann was hesitant to call the conflict a world war because-presentist accounts of eurocentrism to the contrary-most people refused to consider a war fought by Britain, France, Germany and Italy sufficiently worldly.— Acephalous
"For an egocentric presentist," writes Hare, "empathizing with an unfortunate [person] involves imagining that the unfortunate has present experiences."— The Cherry Creek News
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