presentism

How To Use presentism In A Sentence

• Are we engaging in "presentism" and failing to understand what was done in other times and places if we assume that unmarried men who have no apparent intimate relationships with women had a homosexual orientation whether acted upon or not? Was Washington Irving gay?
• None was delighted by the question, because it required judging the past by the standards of today — a fallacy disparaged as "presentism" by social scientists. 1491
• Ironically, during the time of a recession, absenteeism will decrease but presentism, that is being at work but not performing at optimum capacity, will increase and this not only affects the mental health of staff but also the profitability of the company," Prof Cooper said. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
• First, the individual must have the capacity to live in the moment or a sense of presentism; gratification must be immediate and functionally specific because there is no tomorrow in the world of fashion or desire.
• While such presentism gives his work immediacy, it also risks limiting historical issues to current concerns.
• A discussion about presentism is appropriate for an issue of Praxis about the relation between Romantic-period writers and contemporary culture. Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research and the Classroom: Introduction
• But donning the robes of the moralist presents problems of its own, notably the problem of Presentism, that is judging historical figures by contemporary moral standards.
• In contrast to the radical Heraclitean view of presentism, the Parmenidean eternalist picture on the far right lacks these arrows and indicates that there is no more special about the temporal present (the now) than the spatial present (the here). Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
• Their historical presentism is kind of funny actually. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
• This solid study challenges such self satisfied presentism.