Definitions for presentative

presentative pre·sen·ta·tive

Spelling: [pri-zen-tuh-tiv]
IPA: /prɪˈzɛn tə tɪv/

Presentative is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1361 anagrams from letters in presentative (aeeeinprsttv).

Definitions for presentative

adjective

  1. (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
  2. Ecclesiastical. admitting of or pertaining to presentation.
  3. Philosophy. immediately knowable; capable of being known without thought or reflection.

Origin of presentative

First recorded in 1550-60; present2 + -ative

Examples for presentative

The presentative realist, in his appeal to "common-sense" and the "plain man," first sophisticates the umpire and then appeals.

If we wish to cultivate the Representative faculties, we must begin by cultivating the presentative faculties.

The foregoing paragraphs on presentative instruction may seem strange to the American teacher.

Acting in Elizabethan days was a presentative, rather than a representative, art.

In opposition to presentative realism, Dewey offers his 'naturalistic' interpretation of knowledge.

Indeed, to raise the possibility of error in introspection seems to do away with the certainty of presentative knowledge.

Dewey favors the naïve standpoint, and affirms that presentative realism is tainted by an epistemological subjectivism.

The object in insight is thus a presentative feeling as in introspection, though not our own, but another's.

On the other hand, a representative illusion is often more enduring than a presentative, that is to say, less easily found out.

We have seen that "Ultimate Scientific Ideas are all" presentative "of realities" which can "be comprehended."

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