Definitions for presentism
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1. presentismnoun

   the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled

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1. presentismnoun

   The belief that only current phenomena are relevant.

2. presentismnoun

   Interpreting past phenomena in terms of current beliefs and knowledge.

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1. presentism

   Presentism is a philosophical concept or theory that asserts only present events and entities exist, stating that past and future are just imagined concepts and do not really exist. In other words, it is the belief that the present is the only moment of time that is real or actual, and everything else, the past and future, do not have any sort of physical existence.

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1. Presentism

   Presentism is the philosophical doctrine that only events and entities—and, in some versions of presentism, timeless objects or ideas like numbers and sets—that occur in the present exist. According to presentism, events and entities that are wholly past or wholly future do not exist at all. Presentism contrasts with eternalism and the growing block theory of time, which hold that past events, like the Battle of Waterloo, and past entities, like Alexander the Great's warhorse Bucephalus, really do exist, though not in the present. 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. According to early philosophers, time cannot be both past and simultaneously present, so it is not extended. Contrary to Saint Augustine, some philosophers propose that conscious experience is extended in time. For instance, William James said that time is "the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible". Augustine proposed that God is outside of time and present for all times, in eternity. Other early philosophers who were presentists include the Buddhists. A leading scholar from the modern era on Buddhist philosophy is Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, who has written extensively on Buddhist presentism: "Everything past is unreal, everything future is unreal, everything imagined, absent, mental... is unreal... Ultimately real is only the present moment of physical efficiency [i.e., causation]."

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of presentism in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of presentism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Presentism
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