Presentism
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Presentism may refer to:
- Presentism (literary and historical analysis)Presentism (literary and historical analysis)Presentism is a mode of literary or historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past...
- Presentism (philosophy of time)Presentism (philosophy of time)Saint Augustine proposed that the present is a knife edge between the past and the future and could not contain any extended period of time. This seems evident because, if the present is extended, it must have separate parts - but these must be simultaneous if they are truly part of the present...