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 we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration,... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Sivu 239tekijä(t) John Locke - 1894Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1886 - 458 sivua
...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...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... | |
| 1886 - 460 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...is no knifeedge, 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...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... | |
| William James - 1890 - 720 sivua
...is no knifeedge, 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...it were— a rearward- and a forward-looking end. f It is only * The Alternative, p. 167. f Locke, in his dim wny. derived the sense of duration from... | |
| William James - 1890 - 716 sivua
...Collard in the Fragments added to Jouflroy's Translation of Reid, I as parts of this duration-Uock that the relation of succession of one end to the...perceived. We do not first feel one end and then feel the other after it, and from the perception of the succession infer an interval of time between, but we... | |
| William James - 1890 - 720 sivua
...Fragments added to Jouflroy's Translation of Reid, as parts of this duration-Hock that the relation oi succession of one end to the other is perceived. We do not first feel one end and then feel the other after it, and from the perception of the succession infer an interval of time between, but we... | |
| William James - 1892 - 534 sivua
...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...perceived. We do not first feel one end and then feel the other after it, and from the perception of the succession infer an interval of time between, but we... | |
| William James - 1892 - 510 sivua
...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...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... | |
| William James - 1892 - 506 sivua
...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-... | |
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