 | Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid - 1905 - 386 pagini
...present is an instant, a knife-edge of time; "the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern... | |
 | William Mitchell - 1907 - 556 pagini
...and so the present is felt as a duration, if it is felt as time at all.1 1 " The practically cognised present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in x. 7. Secondly, we measure it in perception by its conscious filling ; we perceive it as the... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pagini
...we have obtained by scrutinizing that one sentence. This result is that 'the specious present,' that 'saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time' (p. 609), is not a divisible consciousness, nor is it. a little complete... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - 1913 - 802 pagini
...we usually refer to what has been called the speciow present. " In short, the practically cognised present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 456 pagini
...Carr in his paper on ' The Moment of Experience '. ' The practically cognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 452 pagini
...Carr in his paper on ' The Moment of Experience '. ' The practically cognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1920 - 644 pagini
...temporal sort, and felt distinctions which join with, and develop, the sense of change. In a * "In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The units of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1922 - 376 pagini
...we are in a better position to gain clear ideas of the basic elements of the time-experi4 "In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The units of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Charles Spearman - 1923 - 382 pagini
...reflection has been further developed by James with his wonted brilliancy as follows : " In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1926 - 548 pagini
...filling of personal time. Perhaps we can best do this by the aid of a quotation from James: "In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
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In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. 
