 | Arthur Baumgarten - 1927 - 696 pagini
...James, Principles of Psychology S. 243/45. B. . the practically cognized present is no knife edge. but a saddleback, 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 our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - 1927 - 252 pagini
...towards the immediate physical future. The present of time as experienced is, as William James says, " no knifeedge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own." The common opinion that it is a knife-edge is simply the result of reading into time as experienced... | |
 | Aron Gurwitsch - 1966 - 479 pagini
...Hodgson's notion of the "minimum of consciousness" and that of ER Clay of the "specious present": ". . . 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,... | |
 | Kitaro Nishida - 1992 - 222 pagini
...of Psychology, vol.1, chap.xv." In this chapter, "The Perception of Time," James writes, "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." William James, The Principles of Psychology, vol.1 (New York: Henry... | |
 | Nāgārjuna, David J. Kalupahana - 1991 - 442 pagini
...critic of a similar conception of time, William James, has provided the following analysis: In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look into two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Joseph Claude Evans - 1991 - 233 pagini
...reify it. In 1891-92 and again in 1894, Husserl read William James, who wrote that the present is like "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' ' (James, vol. 1 , 609), and Rudolf Bernet suggests that Husserl's... | |
 | Leemon B. McHenry - 1992 - 236 pagini
...some as about to occur in an ongoing flow of experience. With characteristic clarity, James writes: 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,... | |
 | Thomas W. Busch, Shaun Gallagher - 1992 - 280 pagini
...ITC 41. Husserl cites the work of W. Stern (1897, 1898), but makes no reference to James. 33. ". . . 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,... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer - 2010 - 389 pagini
...in part at least upon the problem which the historian has set himself. As William James has written, "The practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions in time." 18 The breadth of the saddle-back is a function of the hierarchic... | |
 | Samuel L. Macey - 1994 - 730 pagini
...and (3) the differences between experiences of time in passing and in retrospect. JAZZ 321 James said that "the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with 9 Certain nreamn or its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into... | |
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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. 
