...short, 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 we look in two directions into time. The units of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were-^a...

...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 units of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were —...

...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. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the...

...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...

...related both to the immediate past from which it emerges, and the immediate future to which it points. "The only fact of our immediate experience is what...our perception of time is a duration with a bow and stern, as it were ; a rearward and a forward looking end. ' n 'James, William. Psychology; Briefer...

...immediate experience is what has been well called the 'specious present,' a sort of saddleback of tune with a certain length of its own, on which we sit...our perception of time is a duration with a bow and stern, as it were ; a rearward and a forward looking end."1 1 James, William. Psychology ; Briefer...

...243/45. B. . 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...perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a sternrearward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation...

...". . . 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...perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stem, as it were—a rearward and a forward-looking end." 8 What, properly and strictly speaking, should...

...conception of time, William James, has provided the following analysis: and from which we look into two directions into time. The unit of composition...time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were —a rearward- and a forward-looking end. 69 The very first verse in Chapter II suggests the kind...

...because duration is defined as a block or unit within which time-as-succession becomes perceivable. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stem, as it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block...