presentationism

Noun

 * 1)  The doctrine that the mind is capable of grasping the substance and reality of objects, beyond the sensory stimuli they present.
 * 2) * 1904, Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount), The Criticism of Categories (page 48)
 * Presentationism, the seizing upon feeling and by a sort of abstraction converting it into a self-subsisting phenomenon divorced from the movement of reflection which gives it its meaning.
 * Presentationism, the seizing upon feeling and by a sort of abstraction converting it into a self-subsisting phenomenon divorced from the movement of reflection which gives it its meaning.