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What does presentist mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
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Moreover, while frequent use of presentist terminology may aid in understanding, it risks misconstruing the nineteenth century.
And all these presentist criteria for knowledge have been used.
The enticing title is a dead giveaway about the presentist orientation.
At the same time, however, their fetishistic overdetermination bears the potential to subvert both presentist solipsism and historical finalism at once.
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.
For at a certain point Podhoretz becomes, himself, suspiciously presentist.

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