 | Hirokazu Miyazaki - 2004 - 220 pagini
...James's theory of the consciousness of self also draws on his redefinition of the notion of the 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" (James 1981 [1890]: 574). In a similar fashion, George Herbert Mead... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2007 - 522 pagini
...the recent past and a bit of the impending future. William James called it "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,... | |
 | Peter J. Hadreas - 2007 - 160 pagini
...coexistence of a C, a D etc., is needed or not.' 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. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... | |
 | Jonathan Bricklin - 2006 - 238 pagini
...between the past and the future." Such specious present, more than a point, or even a "knife blade," is "a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions of time." James believed that a non-specious present, without breadth, "must... | |
 | Cormac Power - 2008 - 228 pagini
...temporal instants segmented in time, but of the broad flow of temporality in which we find ourselves: 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,... | |
 | 1922 - 980 pagini
...Principles of Psychology, James developed the thesis that "the sensible present has duration." "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,... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1890 - 492 pagini
...Present" given above and proceeds — " 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. 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. 
