1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22… (1911)
“ The term has, indeed, been narrowed so as to include ideation, the correlative “representation” being utilized for ideal presentation, but in general the wider use is preferred. When the mind is cognizing an object, the object “presents” itself to the senses or to thought in one of a number of different forms (e.g. a picture is a work of art, a saleable commodity, a representation of a house, &c.) . Presentation is thus essentially a cognitive process. ”
