Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian / Einsteinian relativity in conjunction with certain other philosophical theses which many find uncontroversial.

Presentism has a shorter history in sociological analysis, where it has been used to describe technological determinists who interpret a change in behavior as starting with the introduction of a new technology.

* Presentism ( philosophy of time )

According to Presentism, time is an ordering of various realities.

* Presentism ( philosophy of time )

* Presentism ( philosophy of time )

* Presentism ( philosophy of time )

Presentism is a mode of literary or historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past.

* Presentism holds that the past and future are unreal, and only an ever changing present is real.

Presentism points out how easy is the wisdom of hindsight and the way we interprete issues of the past through the eyes of today as we attempt to put the past into perspective, not just for the past, but for ourselves and posterity.

Presentism is the philosophical doctrine that only events and entities — and, in some versions of presentism, timeless objects or ideas like numbers and sets — that occur in the present exist.

According to Presentism this is impossible because there is only one present moment that is instantaneous and encompasses the entire universe.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

Because it is so large a state, with marked contrasts in population density, the organization of the New York co-operative offers a cross-section of how the plan works.

Foner ( 2010 ) contrasts the abolitionists and anti-slavery Radical Republicans of the Northeast who saw slavery as a sin, with the conservative Republicans who thought it was bad because it hurt white people and blocked progress.

This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent or optional.

As Daniels used the word, an abugida contrasts with a syllabary, where letters with shared consonants or vowels show no particular resemblance to each another, and with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote both consonants and vowels.

The finding sharply contrasts with government's official unemployment rate of about 10 percent.

Algardi's portraits were highly prized, and their formal severity contrasts with Bernini's more vivacious expression.

This means that opaque ( if not minimal ) contrasts can occur in languages like Italian ( with the i-like sound of piede ' foot ', appearing in the nucleus:, and that of piano ' slow ', appearing in the syllable onset: ) and Spanish ( with a near minimal pair being abyecto ' abject ' and abierto ' opened ').

This contrasts with the conventional Christian belief in eternal life and eternal punishment.

This contrasts with the synthetic approach of Euclidean geometry, which treats certain geometric notions as primitive, and uses deductive reasoning based on axioms and theorems to derive truth.

It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing.

File: Mallard Lake in Golden Gate Park. jpg | A brightly coloured tree contrasts with the green foliage which surrounds it

For example, in Eastern Armenian, aspiration is contrastive even word-finally so that տաք (' hot ') contrasts with տակ (' under ').

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

This atmosphere contrasts with the later Ottoman mosques ( see for example the works of Suleiman the Magnificent's chief architect Mimar Sinan.

This contrasts with scalar processors, which deal with one piece of data for every instruction.

While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.

Though grandiose in plan and elaborately decorated, the temples exhibit a hurriedness of construction that contrasts with the perfection of Angkor Wat.

This contrasts with the Acts and Omissions Doctrine, which is upheld by some medical ethicists and some religions: it asserts there is a significant moral distinction between acts and deliberate non-actions which lead to the same outcome.

For instance, McLuhan contrasts the considerable alarm and revulsion that the growing quantity of books aroused in the latter seventeenth century with the modern concern for the " end of the book.

In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar.

The theory and the practice of Archduke Charles form one of the most curious contrasts in military history.

Jacobs does not lend her theory to any reasonably strict definition of a city, but her account suggestively or vaguely contrasts what could be thought of as primitive city-like activity to the activity occurring in neighboring hunter-gatherer settlements.

Noam Chomsky, linguist and scholar, contrasts conspiracy theory as more or less the opposite of institutional analysis, which focuses mostly on the public, long-term behaviour of publicly known institutions, as recorded in, for example, scholarly documents or mainstream media reports, rather than secretive coalitions of individuals.

This theory contrasts with the rationalist view that concepts are perceptions ( or recollections, in Plato's term ) of an independently existing world of ideas, in that it denies the existence of any such realm.

This contrasts against the modern understanding of ecological theory where varieties are viewed as the real phenomena of interest and having a role in the origins of adaptations by means of natural selection.

The labor theory as an explanation for value contrasts with the subjective theory of value, which says that value of a good is not determined by how much labor was put into it but by its usefulness in satisfying a want and its scarcity.

This contrasts with the theory of subrecursive hierarchies, formal methods and formal languages that is common in the study of computability theory in computer science.

Jaynes ' last book, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science gathers various threads of modern thinking about Bayesian probability and statistical inference, develops the notion of probability theory as extended logic, and contrasts the advantages of Bayesian techniques with the results of other approaches.

In addition to the doctrine of the Sefirot and the letters, the theory of contrasts in nature, or of the syzygies (" pairs "), as they are called by the Gnostics, occupies a prominent place in the Sefer Yetzirah.

The requirement of computability reflects on and contrasts with the approach used in analytic number theory to prove the results.

The theory contrasts with intrinsic theories of value that hold that there is an objectively correct value of an object that can be determined irrespective of individual value judgements, such as by analyzing the amount of labor incurred in producing the object ( see labor theory of value ).

The subjective theory contrasts with intrinsic theories of value, such as the labor theory of value which holds that the economic value of a thing is contingent upon how much labor was-necessarily-exerted in producing it-under the condition, however, that this " thing " has a use value.

The theory contrasts with normative versions of the labor theory of value that say the exchange value of a good should be proportional to how much socially necessary labor went into producing it.

It contrasts with marginal utility theory, which argues that the value of labour depends on subjective preferences by consumers, which may however also be objectively studied.

This view contrasts for example with late Bertrand Russell's description theory of proper names as well as John Searle's cluster description theory of names which prevailed at the time.

The term " classical " refers not only to the chronology of these models but also contrasts with the more recent psychometric theories, generally referred to collectively as item response theory, which sometimes bear the appellation " modern " as in " modern latent trait theory ".

Today's narrow definition of heat in physics contrasts with its use in common language, in some engineering disciplines, and in the historical scientific development of thermodynamics in the caloric theory of heat.

His view contrasts with that of John Rawls-that it might be possible to isolate some basic social and political rules ; rather Kaplan's alternative theory of justice is his test in principle, a kind of decision procedure for evaluating social, political, and moral choices, which attempts to circumvent the limitations of an egocentric or culturally narrow perspective while providing sufficient context to make a judgment.