 | Martin C. Dillon - 1995 - 258 pagini
...39. James appropriates the term 'specious present' from ER Clay and writes the following about it. "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,... | |
 | Ingo Rill - 1995 - 218 pagini
...ein mit vergangenen und zukünftigen Phasen des Erlebnisstromes durchsetztes Zeitfeld: „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,... | |
 | Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling - 1996 - 196 pagini
...version of it means that we are directly aware of the immediate past as well as of the immediate future. "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" Qames, W. (1950) Principles of Psychology, voL 1, Dover, p. 609).... | |
 | F. C. T. Moore - 1996 - 182 pagini
...of? James continues: The only fact of our immediate experience is ... '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,... | |
 | Krzysztof Michalski - 1997 - 192 pagini
...'now'. Consequently, the 'now' is not a point; rather, it is internally differentiated. "[• • •] [T]he practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time".9 Every individual state of consciousness is an internally differentiated... | |
 | Alfred W. Crosby - 1997 - 268 pagini
..."now" was closer to the kind described by the American pragmatist William James, that is to say, not a "knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth...its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time."4 For example, as we pass a cubical building, we perceive it not... | |
 | Shaun Gallagher - 1998 - 260 pagini
..."duration-block," an "interval of time" that we perceive (1890, 610). 17 THE INORDINANCE OF TIME 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,... | |
 | J. M. Barbalet - 2001 - 224 pagini
...form than a durationless moment: in James's terms, "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" (p. 609). The explanation offered by James of the practically cognized... | |
 | Jadunath Sinha - 1999 - 408 pagini
...present " from ER Clay and gave currency to it. He expresses his view most beautifully as follows : — " 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,... | |
 | Michael Beuthner - 1999 - 436 pagini
...In »Principles of Psychology II« (1980) findet sich jene brühmt gewordene Formulierung James' : »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« (James, zit. n. Kern 1983: 83; ct. Nowotny 1993: 22). »Husserl... | |
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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. 
