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...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,...composition of our perception of time is a duration, Avith a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forwardlooking end. i It is only as parts of...

...what has been well called 'the specious' present, a sort of saddle-back of time with a certain length of its own, on which we sit perched, and from which...time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-Mock that the relation...

...has been well called ' the specious ' present, a sort of saddle-back of time with a certain length of its own, on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composi-. tion of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward-...

...does exist can never be a fact of our immediate experience. VOL. I. . . . The practically cognised present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own, from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is...

...Carr in his paper on ' The Moment of Experience '. ' The practicallycognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain...our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and stern, as it were — a rear1 Creative Evolution, p. 5. ward and a forward-looking end. It is only...

...live is not an instantaneous moment but possesses a certain duration. In Professor James's words, " The practically cognized present is no knife-edge,...from which we look in two directions into time ". The Specious Present is to be opposed to the Atomic Present which is mainly a fiction of the mathematicians....

...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...two directions into time. The unit of composition of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern as it were— a rearward- and a forward-looking end. . ....

...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...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 duration...

...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...and from which we look in two directions into time' (p. 609), is not a divisible consciousness, nor is it. a little complete bit of consciousness, followed...