| From a historian's perspective, aspects of Paton's presentist writing style are exasperating. |
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| Moreover, while frequent use of presentist terminology may aid in understanding, it risks misconstruing the nineteenth century. |
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| For at a certain point Podhoretz becomes, himself, suspiciously presentist. |
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| And all these presentist criteria for knowledge have been used. |
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| The enticing title is a dead giveaway about the presentist orientation. |
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| It is not, however, over-ambition that causes Terry to come unstuck but rather her openly presentist view of historical method which she proudly displays in her introduction. |
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| At the same time, however, their fetishistic overdetermination bears the potential to subvert both presentist solipsism and historical finalism at once. |
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