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How To Use presentist In A Sentence

• First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography. Presentism and the Archives
• Moreover, while frequent use of presentist terminology may aid in understanding, it risks misconstruing the nineteenth century.
• The enticing title is a dead giveaway about the presentist orientation.
• This will inevitably require some deep "hermeneutical" work (theological and historical) that I think can be "saving" (inverting the negativity of Philocrites' early charge)...in the sense that it will be part of moving us beyond a contemporary UU myopia that is not only "presentist" but also geographic. Philocrites: The UU gospel according to Fausto.
• This retrieval of information not instantly validated by presentist urgencies may seem to belong to what Nietzsche called "antiquarian" history: the indiscriminate preservation of everything just because it is old (73-74). Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History
• From a historian's perspective, aspects of Paton's presentist writing style are exasperating.
• And all these presentist criteria for knowledge have been used.
• It is not, however, over-ambition that causes Terry to come unstuck but rather her openly presentist view of historical method which she proudly displays in her introduction.
• While the "antiquarian" methods that Simpson urges us to adopt invite us to experience reading as a "meditative" act in which our epistemological and ultimately our ontological relations to historical material are both tentative and multi-directional, he doesn't afford this kind of flexibility to presentist readers. Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession
• ˜temporal part™ (see section 2), and it raises a methodological issue: should ˜temporal part™ be defined in such a way that presentists can believe in temporal parts, or not? Temporal Parts