Actual Freedom – Definitions

Definitions

Memorative; Memorate

Memorative Facility; Memoria; Memory

Presentiate/ Presentiation/ Presentification

Rememorance; Rememoration


Memorative:

• memorative (a.): [= F. mémoratif = Sp. Pg. It. memorativo; as memorate + -ive]. 1. Of or pertaining to memory: as, the memorative faculty or power. – 2. Preserving or recalling the memory of something; aiding the memory. [Archaic and rare]. ‘The mind doth secretly frame to itselfe memorative heads, whereby it recalls easily the same conceits’. ~ Bp. Hall, Holy Observations, No. 87. ‘Vernal weather to me most memorative’. ~ Carlyle, in Froode. (1911 Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia).


Memorate/ Memorative:

• memorate (v.t.): bring to mind; mention; remember (long rare). [Latin memorat- (pa. ppl stem of memorare, ‘bring to mind’), memor + -ate]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• memorative (adj. & n.): 1. preserving or reviving the memory of some person or thing; commemorative; 2. of or pertaining to memory; 3. having a good memory; retentive; a memorial (now rare). ~ (Oxford English

• memorative (adj.): relating to the memory (obsolete). ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• memorative (a.): of, pertaining to, or assisting, the memory. ~ (1920 King’s English Dictionary).

• memorative (a.): tending to preserve memory of any thing. ~ (p. 431; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• memorated (pp.): brought to recollection. ~ (p. 431; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).


Memorative Facility:

Memorative facility = Latin: virtus memorativa}.


Memoria:

• memoria (n.): 1. memory; 2. memoria technica: technical memory, a contrivance for aiding the memory. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).


Memory:

Just as a computer’s ‘memory’ bears no relationship to human memory (data-base is a much better word) so too is ‘artificial intelligence’ a misnomer (data-retrieval/ data-matching system are much better phrases) as it has no correlation with human intelligence. And it is not just that a computer cannot think (cognitively understand and comprehend) which makes it not intelligent as, lacking sentience, it not only cannot be conscious (aware) it cannot be self-conscious (self-aware) either – which is the essential prerequisite for intelligence – because intelligence is not only the faculty of the human brain thinking with all its understanding (intellect) and comprehension (sagacity) but its cognisance (consciousness or awareness) of being a body in the world of people, other animals, plants, things and events. And lack of sentience means it cannot be self-referential – which involves the issue of agency and agency can be only self-referential – as computers do not have agency.

Furthermore, a self-referential organism is also self-interested: it is concerned about its existence, and by extension others’ existence, in that it is biased – it finds water appealing and acid unappealing for example – and being biased is what being self-interested means ... whereas computers are indifferent, as it were, to both their existence and their functions (switched off or on makes no difference to a computer).

Lastly, computers are not an agency because they are built by humans to serve human agency (rather than to be an agency even if that be possible) and the first principle of serving an agency is being non-resistant (obedient to the agency) and thus not self-concerned.

For an example of ‘artificial intelligence’ being a misnomer: when a computer wins at chess it is actually the programmer – the agency – who designed the programme who wins (achieves an end) via their programme.

Which is what makes a computer a remarkable tool for human intelligence to amplify itself through. (Based in part on an article by Eugene Matusov, Mon, 23 Mar 1998)

See also Intelligence:


Presentiate/Presentiation:

presentiation (n.): the act of presentiating (making present) or state of being presentiated (made present).

• The word presentiation = Vergegenwärtigung (as per Mr. Edmund Husserl).

• [quote]: ‘(...) he uses the term Vergegenwärtigung, translated as ‘representation’ or as ‘presentification’ or ‘presentiation’ to distinguish it from ‘presentation’ (Vorstellung), which in everyday German suggests the process of ‘calling to mind’, ‘visualising’ or ‘conjuring up an image in one’s mind’, to characterise quite a number of processes – including not just imagining, but remembering and also empty intending – which are to be contrasted with the full presence of the intended object in a genuine ‘presenting’ or ‘presencing’ (Gegenwärtigung). Here, some familiarity with Husserl’s overall theory of intuiting is needed to understand fully what is at stake’. (www.academia.edu/10194179/The_Husserl_Dictionary).

Here are some dictionary definitions.

Viz.:

• presentiate (v.t.): make or render present in place or time; to cause to be perceived or realised as present. [now rare. 1659. perh. fr. present + ate‹3›, after different, differentiate]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• presentiate (vt.): to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiated (pp.): made present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presential (a.): supposing actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiality (n.): state of being present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentially (ad.): in a way which supposes actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiating (ppr.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

(viz.: https://archive.org/stream/criticalpronounc00knowrich#page/516/mode/1up).

Plus that other word, ‘presentification’, introduced in the ‘Husserl Dictionary’ quote (presentific = presentiate).

Viz.:

• presentifick (a.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentifickally (ad.): in such a manner as to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentific (a.): making present. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• presentificly (adv.): in such a manner as to make present. [Not in use]. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary).


Presentiate; Presentiation; Presentific; Presentification:

• presentiate (tr.v.): to make present. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

• presentiate (v.t.): make or render present in place or time; to cause to be perceived or realised as present. [now rare; 1659; perhaps from present + ate³, after different, differentiate]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• presentiate (tr.v.): to make present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiate† (tr.v.): to make present or actual; [e.g.]: “The phancy may be so cleer and strong as to presentiate upon one theatre all that ever it took notice of in time past”. (Nehemiah Grew, 1641-1712, “Cosmologia Sacra”, 1701, iii. 4). [from Latin praesentia, ‘presence’ (see presence) + -ate²]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• presentiated (pp.): made present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presential (a.): supposing actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiality (n.): state of being present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentially (ad.): in a way which supposes actual presence. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiating (ppr.): making present. ~ (Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• presentiation (n.): the act of presentiating (i.e., making present) or state of being presentiated (i.e., made present); (synonym): Vergegenwärtigung (after Edmund Husserl; q.v.). [from presentiat(e), ‘make present’ + -ion, Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -iō, ‘-iōn’, nounal suffix]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary).

• Vergegenwärtigung (n.): Husserl uses the term Vergegenwärtigung, translated as ‘representation’ or as ‘presentification’ or ‘presentiation’ to distinguish it from ‘presentation’ (Vorstellung), which in everyday German suggests the process of ‘calling to mind’, ‘visualising’ or ‘conjuring up an image in one’s mind’, to characterise quite a number of processes – including not just imagining, but remembering and also empty intending – which are to be contrasted with the full presence of the intended object in a genuine ‘presenting’ or ‘presencing’ (Gegenwärtigung). Here, some familiarity with Husserl’s overall theory of intuiting is needed to understand fully what is at stake. ~ (The Husserl Dictionary).

• presentific† (adj.): making present; [e.g.]: “Adam had a sense of the divine presence; ... notwithstanding that he found no want of any covering to hide himself from that presentifick sense of him”. (Dr. Henry More, 1614-1687, “Defence of the Philosophic Cabbala”, ii). [from Latin praesenten(t-)s, ‘present’ + -ficus, ‘making’, see -fic]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• presentifical† (adj.): same as presentific. [from presentific + -al]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• presentificly† (adv.): in a presentific manner; in such a manner as to make present; [e.g.]: “The whole evolution of times and ages... is collectedly and presentifickly represented to God at once, as if all things and actions were at this very instant really present and existent before him”. (Dr. Henry More, 1614-1687). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• presentification (n.): the act of making something present to one’s consciousness, but not outside of it (by way of memory, apperception, etc.). ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).


Rememorance:

• rememorance (n.): remembrance; [e.g.]: “Nowe menne it call, by all rememoraunce, Constantyne noble, wher to dwell he did enclyne”. (John Hardyng, 1378-1465, “Hardyng’s Chronicle”, f. 50; James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: “A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words”, page 676). [Middle English rememoraunce, a variation, after Medieval Latin *rememorantia, of remembraunce; see remembrance⁽*⁾]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

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⁽*⁾remembrance (n.):

1. the act of remembering; the keeping of a thing in mind or recalling it to mind; a revival in the mind or memory; [e.g.]: “All knowledge is but remembrance”. (Francis Bacon, “Advancement of Learning”, i. 2); “Remembrance is but the reviving of some past knowledge”. (John Locke, 1632-1704, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, 1690, IV. i. 9); “Remembrance and reflection, how allied; | What thin partitions sense from thought divide!” (Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man”, 1733-34, i. 225); 

2. the power or faculty of remembering; memory; also, the limit of time over which the memory extends; [e.g.]: “Thee I have heard relating what was done | Ere my remembrance”. (John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, viii. 204); “When the word perception is used properly and without any figure, it is never applied to things past. And thus it is distinguished from remembrance”. (Thomas Reid, 1710-1796, “Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man”, 1786, i. 1); 

3. the state of being remembered; the state of being held honourably in memory; [e.g.]: “The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance”. (Ps. cxii. 6); “Grace and remembrance be to you both”. (William Shakespeare, “The Winter’s Tale”, iv. 4. 76); “O scenes in strong remembrance set! | Scenes never; never to return! | Scenes if in stupor I forget, | Again I feel, again I burn! | From every joy and pleasure torn, | Life’s weary vale I wander through; | And hopeless, comfortless, I will mourn | A faithless woman’s broken vow!” (Robert Burns, “The Lament”); 

4. that which is remembered; a recollection; [e.g.]: “How sharp the point of this remembrance is!” (William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, v. 1. 138); “The sweet remembrance of the just | Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust”. (Tare and Brady, Ps. cxii. 6); 

5. that which serves to bring to or keep in mind; [e.g.]: “I pray, Sir, be my continual remembrance to the Throne of grace”. (William Bradford, in Appendix to “New England’s Memorial”, p. 435);

(a) an account preserved; a memorandum or note to preserve or assist the memory; a record; mention; [e.g.]: “Auferius, the welebelouyd kyng | That was of Ynd, and ther had his dwellyng | Till he was puttc [from] his enheritaunce, | Wherof be fore was made remembraunce”. (Generydes; E. E. T. S., 1. 2177); “Let the understanding reader take with him three or four short remembrances. ... The memorandums I would commend to him are these”. (William Chillingworth, “The Religion of Protestants, Answer to Fifth Chapter”, § 29);

(b) a monument; a memorial; [e.g.]: “And it is of trouthe, as they saye there, and as it is assygned by token of a fayre stone layde for remembraunce, yt our blessyd Lady and seynt John Euangelyste stode not aboue vpon the hyghest pte of the Mounte of Caluery at the passyon of our Lord”. (Sir Richard Guylforde, “Pylgrymage to The Holy Land”, 1506, p. 27); “If I neuer deserue anye better remembraunce, let mee ... be epitaphed the Inuentor of the English Hexameter”. (Gabriel Harvey, 1552-1631, “Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets”, 1592); (e) a token by which one is kept in the memory; a keep-sake; [e.g.]: “I am glad I have found this napkin; | This was her first remembrance from the Moor”. (William Shakespeare, “Othello”, iii. 8. 291); “I pray you accept | This small remembrance of a father’s thanks | For so assur’d a benefit”. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, “Love’s Pilgrimage”, v. 2); 6. the state of being mindful; thought; regard; consideration; notice of something absent; [e.g.]: “In what place that euer I be in, the moste remembraunce that I shall hane shah be vpon yow, and on yowre nedes”. (Merlin; E. E. T. S., i. 49); “We with wisest sorrow think on him, | Together with remembrance of ourselves”. (William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, i. 2. 7); “The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement Concord”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Historical Discourse at Concord”, 1835); 7†. admonition; reminder; [e.g.]: “I do commit into your hand | The unstained sword that you have used to bear; | With this remembrance, that you use the same | With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit | As you have done ’gainst me”. (William Shakespeare, “2 Henry IV.”, v. 2. 115); clerks of the remembrance: see remembrancer;

2. to make remembrance: to bring to remembrance; recount; relate; (synonyms): 1, 2, and 4., recollection, reminiscence, etc.; see memory; viz.: memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence; memory is the general word for the faculty or capacity itself; recollection and remembrance are different kinds of exercise of the faculty; reminiscence, also, is used for the exercise of the faculty, but less commonly, and then it stands for the least energetic use of it, the matter seeming rather to be suggested to the mind; the correctness of the use of memory for that which is remembered has been disputed; the others are freely used for that which is remembered; in either sense, recollection implies more effort, more detail, and more union of objects in wholes, than remembrance does; reminiscence is used chiefly of past events, rarely of thoughts, words, or scenes, while recollection is peculiarly appropriate for the act of recalling mental operations; see remember; viz.: remember implies that a thing exists in the memory, not that it is actually present in the thoughts at the moment, but that it recurs without effort; recollect means that a fact, forgotten or partially lost to memory, is after some effort recalled and present to the mind; remembrance is the store-house, recollection the act of culling out this article and that from the repository; [e.g.]: “He remembers everything he hears, and can recollect any statement when called on”; the words, however, are often confounded, and we say we cannot remember a thing when we mean we cannot recollect it. [early modern English also remembraunce; from Middle English remembrance, remembraunce, from Old French remembrance, remembraunce, French remembrance = Provinçal remembransa = Spanish remembranza = Portuguese remembrança, lembrança = Italian rimembranza,from Medieval Latin as if *remorantia, from rememorare, ‘remember’, ‘recall to mind’, from re-, ‘again’ + memorare, ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’, ‘mindful’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

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• rememoraunce (n.): rememorance, rememoration; remembrance; [e.g.]: “And then cometh the sone hom with alle his frendes and maketh hem a gret feste. And the sone leteth make clene his fadir his heed (=father’s head). And the flessh of the heed, he sherith (=carves) hit and yif (=gives) hit to his moste special frendes, every man a litel, for a gret denté (=delicacy). And of the skulle of the hed the sone leteth make a coppe, and therof drynketh he al his lyfftyme (=lifetime) in rememoraunce of his fader. And fro thenne to go ten journeys thorgh the lond of the Gret Chane is a wel good ile and a gret kyngdom”. (from Chapter Twenty-Second: ‘Aray of The Court of Prester John’, in “The Book of John Mandeville”, 1357-1371; Edited by Tamarah Kohanski and C. David Benson)”. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary).

• rememorate† (tr.v.): to remember; revive in the memory; [e.g.]: “We shall ever find the like difficulties, whether we rememorate or learne anew”. (Lodowick Bryskett, “A Discourse of Civil Life”; 1606, p. 128). [from Late Latin rememoratus, pp. of rememorari, ‘remember’; from re-, ‘again’ + memorare, ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’, ‘mindful’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• rememorate (intr.v.; obs.): remind, remember; (n.; arch.): rememoration, rememorations. [origin of rememorate: Late Latin rememoratus, past participle of rememorari, ‘to remember’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• rememorative† (adj.): recalling to mind; reminding; [e.g.]: “Forwhi, withoute rememoratijf signes of a thing, or of thingis, the rememoracioun, or the remembraunce, of thilk thing or thingis muste needis be the febler, as experience sufficientli witnessith; and therfore, sithen the bodi or the bonis or othere relikis of eny persoon is a fill nyȝ rememoratijf signe of the same persoon, it is ful resonable and ful worthi that where the bodi or bonis or eny releef or relik of a Seint mai be had, that it be sett up in a comoun place to which peple may haue her deuout neiȝing and accesse, for to haue her deuout biholding ther upon forte make the seid therbi remembraunce”. (Bishop Reginald Pecock, 1395-1460, in “The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of The Clergy”, p. 182; 1860, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London). [from French remémoratif = Spanish, Portuguese rememorativo; as rememorate + -ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• rememoration† (n.): remembrance; [e.g.]: “The story requires a particular rememoration”. (Jeremy Taylor, “Works”; ed. 1835, II. 256). [early modern English rememoracious; from Old French rememoration, French remémoration, from Medieval Latin rememoration(n-), from Late Latin rememorari, ‘remember’; see remember, rememorate]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• memorate† (tr.v.): to mention for remembrance; commemorate. [from Latin memoratus, pp. of memorare (hence Italian memorare = Spanish, Portuguese memorar = Old French membrer, menbrer, French mémorer), ‘bring to remembrance’, ‘mention’, ‘recount’, from memor, ‘remembering’; see memory; cf. commemorate and remember]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• memorative (adj.): 1. of or pertaining to memory: as, the memorative faculty or power; 2. (archaic and rare) preserving or recalling the memory of something; aiding the memory; [e.g.]: “The mind doth secretly frame to itselfe memorative heads, whereby it recalls easily the same conceits”. (Bishop Hall, “Holy Observations”, No. 87); “Vernal weather to me most memorative”. (Thomas Carlyle, in “Life of Carlyle”, by James Anthony Froude). [= French mémoratif = Spanish, Portuguese, Italian memorativo; as memorate + -ive]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).


Rememoration:

• rememoration = a viscerally-intuitive type of re-memoration, of memorable items already memorialised in the memorative facility, revivified feelingly with luminous vibrancy; presentiation = the act of presentiating (‘making present’) or state of being presentiated (‘made present’) in the memorative facility.

• rememoration & rememorance (n.): remembrance; rememorative (adj.): recalling to mind, reminding; rememorate (v.t.): to remember; revive in the memory. ~ (1911 Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia).

• rememorate (intr. v.; obsolete): remind, remember; (n.; archaic): rememoration. ~ (2008 Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

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• rememoration (n.): the action of remembering; an instance of this; formerly also, the action of reminding someone. (long rare); [Late Latin rememoratio(n-), pa. ppl stem of rememorari + -ation]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• rememoration (n.): remembrance. ~ (p. 550; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• rememoration (n.): remembrance. ~ (Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia).

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• rememorate (vt.): to call to remembrance. ~ (p. 550; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• rememorate (intr.v.; obs.): remind, remember; (n. arch.): rememoration, rememorations. [LL rememoratus, pp. of rememorari, ‘to remember’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• rememorate (v.t.): to remember; revive in the memory. ~ (Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia).

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• rememorative (a.): recalling to mind; reminding. ~ (Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia).

• rememorated (pp.): remembered.~ (p. 550; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).

• rememorating (pp.): remembering ~ (p. 550; James Knowles 1851 Dictionary).


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