 | Ram Adhar Mall - 2000 - 172 pagini
...version of it means that we are directly aware of both the immediate past and 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." W. James, Principles of Psychology, vol. 1 (Dover 1950), 609. 3.... | |
 | Alfred I. Tauber - 2001 - 346 pagini
...the specious present." (James [1890] 1983, P- 574) James goes on to make his own comment: 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 experience is from the outset a synthetic datum, not a... | |
 | Charles M. Sherover - 2001 - 628 pagini
...present; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to us in the fiction of the specious present. 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,... | |
 | Stephen P. Salloway, Paul F. Malloy, James D. Duffy - 2008 - 276 pagini
...enables a personal history and an anticipatory vision of the future. In short, 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 two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Toine Kortooms, Antonie Johannes Maria Kortooms - 2002 - 329 pagini
...James, The Principles of Psychology, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1890, chapter XV, p. 605-642. 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 of time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with... | |
 | Stephen Kern - 2003 - 418 pagini
..."specious present." James adopted the concept and illustrated it with one of his unforgettable images: "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." He also accepted the calculations of its length from Wundt's laboratory... | |
 | Quentin Smith, Aleksandar Jokic - 2003 - 550 pagini
...the idea was enthusiastically taken up by William James (1907: 609), who famously declared: 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,... | |
 | Richard Bauckham - 2005 - 320 pagini
...image (quoted on p. 83): 'the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time'. 68 For this aeonic eternity of heaven, see CoG 282—283. On heaven,... | |
 | Annelise Riles - 2006 - 262 pagini
...1992; Schutz 1970). For William James, for example, the present stretches to the past and the 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" (James 1981 [1890], 574). For Sartre, in contrast, this space is... | |
 | William James - 2007 - 709 pagini
...present; the faculty from which it proceeds lies to ns in the fiction of the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge,...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. 
