...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...stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forwardlooking end.1 It is only as parts of this duration-Uoek that the relation of succession of one end to the other...

...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...

...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...it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. t It is only • The Alternative, p. 167. f Locke, in his dim way. derived the sense of duration from...

...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...it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. t It is only * The Alternative, p. 167. t Locke. In his dim way. derived the sense of duration from...

..."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...a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration -block, that the relation of succession of one end to the other is perceived. We do not first...

...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,...

...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...

...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: '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...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 the subject applies to any...

...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...it were, — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. The economic present is not only a period, but it is a period of sufficient definiteness in each man's...