Immediacy
Immediacy
(Lat. in + medius, middle) Immediacy is used in two senses
Contrasted with representation, immediacy is the direct presence to the mind of the object of knowledge. See Presentational immediacy.
Contrasted with mediation, immediacy consists in the absence or minimal and submerged presence of inference, interpretation and construction in any process of knowledge.
In this sense perception and memory are relatively immediate whereas scientific and philosophical theories are mediate. — L.W.