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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that perception is an immediate cognition.
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The alternative position, referred to in the 19th century as “presentationism” is often called “direct realism” and holds, as Reid contends, that we directly apprehend the world of real things.
Ted Marcel Inhoff 2009
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Hamilton's solution, ultimately, is to combine phenomenalism and presentationism.
Ted Marcel Inhoff 2009
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It is curious, however, that the very passage (_Lectures_, i., p. 146) which Mr. Mill cites as proving that Hamilton, in spite of his professed phenomenalism, was an unconscious noumenalist, is employed by Mr. Stirling to prove that, in spite of his professed presentationism, he was an unconscious representationist.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845
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