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In philosophy, a presentation (German Vorstellung) is the basic mental act by which an object is brought before the mind, the appearing of something to awareness before any judgement is made about it. Franz Brentano's 1874 Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint made presentation the foundational class of mental phenomena, holding that every other act, such as judging or desiring, rests on something first being presented. Edmund Husserl's 1901 Logical Investigations refined how such acts intend their objects. The referent is an event within a mind, how a thing is given to consciousness, not a fetus lying over the birth canal or a person managing how others see them.[1][2]
In sociology and social psychology, presentation refers to the way a person stages and manages the impression they give to others during interaction. Erving Goffman's 1959 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life coined this dramaturgical account, treating encounters as performances with a front region, a back region, and an audience whose view of the actor is actively controlled. Leary and Kowalski's 1990 review reframed the same behaviour as impression management and split it into measurable motivation and construction components. The referent is a social performance aimed at an audience, not the orientation of a fetus at birth or the appearing of an object to a single mind.[3][4]
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