presentiation · noun — the act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given; a synonym of presentification; an intuitive consciousness that renders something co-present or represented. It carries an Arena rating of 1303, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “presentiation” is a great word
The phenomenological act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given, especially as an intuitive rendering of something co-present or represented. From German Präsentation, from Latin praesentatio ('a presenting'). In its phenomenological sense, it is a calque of the German Vergegenwärtigung ('making present'), first attested in English in 1860 in a translation by W. B. Pope. Unlike 'presentation' (which is a formal showing to an audience) or 'perception' (which is direct awareness of what the senses provide), presentiation is the mind's subtle conjuring of the absent. It is the clear sense of a room's unseen wall behind you, the historian summoning the texture of a vanished room from a single daguerreotype, or the haunting reality of a historical event felt in a quiet square—the ghostly architecture consciousness builds from the barest of blueprints, a stubborn refusal to let the irretrievable remain unreachable.
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Etymology
From German Präsentation, from Latin praesentatio. In the phenomenological sense, a calque of German Vergegenwärtigung.
noun
- The act of making something present to consciousness that is not originally given; a synonym of presentification; an intuitive consciousness that renders something co-present or represented.e.g.“By presentiation I understand every experience in which an object is itself "in person" before us, whether as a physical thing in perception, or as a phantasy object in phantasy.” — 1931, Edmund Husserl, translated by Dorion Cairns, Cartesian Meditations, Martinus Nijhoff, published 1960, §44:
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