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This view of time is given the name presentism by philosophers.
"The growth of presentism is the greatest danger we face," she warns.
That's presentism, imposing the present on the past, which is usually unfair, so don't do it.
Presentism: An anti-historical way of looking at human rights.
This is what is known as "presentism" or the tendency to focus on very recent events.
In line with presentism, God knows everything that ever happened, and that is happening, but cannot know the future, because it doesn't exist.
A person who believes in presentism believes that the present is the only relevantly true world.
There are two principle varieties of the A-theory, presentism and the growing block universe.
The progressives were accused of a dastardly crime: "presentism."
According to presentism, events and entities that are wholly past or wholly future do not exist at all.
Therefore, presentism is attempting to demonstrate that the total sum of the actual world occupies the present moment.
In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal.
Also, if the mereological essentialist believes in presentism, then this argument may fail to convince them.
An awareness of presentism can help us to be wary of the easy wisdom of hindsight.
Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter.
This is the "presentism" defense, which can be useful for almost any era and almost any misdeed.
In 1982 Steve Rayner wrote a study of the organisation, and critiqued its presentism.
A Future for presentism.
Among historians, the orthodox view may be that reading modern notions of morality into the past is to commit the error of presentism.
The California scholar is faulted for the sin of presentism, that is, retroactively applying today's standards to the past.
Presentism (literary and historical analysis)
Describes presentism and four-dimensionalism.
Persistence and Presentism.
"Persistence and Presentism", Philosophical Papers 25: 2.
Presentism (philosophy of time)