...specious present." 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...two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forwardlooking...

...specious present." 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...two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, Avith a bow and a stern, as it were—a rearward- and a forwardlooking...

...the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit...two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking...

...the specious present." In short, the practically cognized present is no knifeedge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit...two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking...

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

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

...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-...

...perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of 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...

...Experience '. ' The practicallycognized present ', says James, ' is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit...two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and stern, as it were — a rear1 Creative Evolution,...

...In Professor James's words, " The practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit...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....