James sees now the primordial « fact of our immediate experience » to be that of « the specious present », « 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... Psychology - Página 276por William James - 1892 - 478 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1886 - 458 páginas
...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...time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forwardlooking end.1 It is only as parts of this duration-Uoek that the... | |
| 1886 - 460 páginas
...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...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... | |
| William James - 1890 - 716 páginas
...short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth 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. t It is only • The Alternative, p. 167. f Locke,... | |
| William James - 1890 - 718 páginas
...short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth 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. t It is only * The Alternative, p. 167. t Locke. In... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1891 - 638 páginas
..."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...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 -block, that the relation... | |
| Alexander Thomas Ormond - 1894 - 332 páginas
...distinguishes between a " specious present," which James picturesquely describes as " a sort of saddleback with a certain length of its own, on which we sit...and from which we look in two directions into time," and the real present, which forever vanishes to a point. This real present the psychologist finds inexplicable,... | |
| 1917 - 714 páginas
...practicallycognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which...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... | |
| Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1901 - 602 páginas
...words, " 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 Specious Present is to be opposed to the Atomic Present which is mainly a fiction of the mathematicians.... | |
| James Mark Baldwin - 1902 - 946 páginas
...James: '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...time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward and a forward looking end.' The saddle-back metaphor and much else in James on... | |
| Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1905 - 706 páginas
...way:* — 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...time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were, — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. The economic present is not only a period, but it... | |
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