Talk:Presentism

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I think this article could use some help. The opening part is great, with the example of caning. When most people come to look up the idea of presentism, the discussion of Augustine, though interesting, doesn't really help. I myself was looking for some arguments for and against the existence of presentism-- can people really see the past with anything other than their own beliefs and perceptions? How can one avoid presentism when studying the past? Perhaps relativity is very relevant here, but that connection needs to be more explicit. 129.59.234.115 16:09, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There are two types of Presentism, the second type is defined by reference to four dimensionalism. It is not really relevant to viewing the past through the beliefs of the present. Perhaps the second meaning of the word Presentism should be prefaced by "and now for something totally different"(!). loxley 22:42, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Presentism is also a term from religion/theology, with various usages.

Philosophy
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.

This is not what presentism meanss in philosophy. Srnec (talk) 20:04, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I just got here from Philosphy of Time (or something similar) and the meaning here is completely different from the meaning there. Can a philosopher please fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.28.130 (talk) 22:48, 15 September 2014 (UTC)