presentism
Judging past anachronistically
Presentism is judging historical figures and events by contemporary moral standards rather than the standards of their time: Critics accused the documentary of presentism for condemning 18th-century attitudes.
The term is usually pejorative, suggesting anachronistic moral reasoning.
In philosophy, presentism is separately the view that only the present moment exists—past and future have no reality.
anachronism
Assigning wrong time period
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- out-of-placeNot fitting the surroundings
- incongruityLack of harmony
- retrofittingUpdating existing with new
momentariness
Brief duration quality
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
nowness
State of current existence
- immediacyQuality of being direct
misdating
Assigning wrong time period
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- out-of-placeNot fitting the surroundings
- incongruityLack of harmony
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- philosophiesempiricism, stoicism, nihilism, idealism, materialism
- cognitive biasesconfirmation bias, anchoring bias, negativity bias, framing effect, optimism bias
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, historical interpretation, historical analysis
- Physics Philosophydeterminism, causality, spacetime, measurement problem, hidden variables
- spacetimespacetime, space-time, four-dimensional, tesseract, hypercube
temporal orientation in culture/psychology
presentismfuturism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
traditionalism · nostalgia · long-term thinking · tradition · ancestor veneration
- presenting armsCeremonial weapon display