... 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, with a bow and a stern, as it were, a rearward and a forward-looking... The Journal of Speculative Philosophy - Page 3781886Full view - About this book
| Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - Psychology - 1891 - 638 pages
...stern, as it were, a rearward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration -block, that the relation of succession of one end to the...the interval of time as a whole, with its two ends imbedded in it. The experience is from the outset a synthetic datum, not a simple one ; and to sensible... | |
| William James - Psychology - 1892 - 510 pages
...stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the...the other after it, and from the perception of the snccession infer an interval of time between, but we seem to feel the interval of time as a whole,... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 692 pages
...stern, as it were, a rear-ward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the...perceived. We do not first feel one end, and then feel the oilier after it, and from the perception of the succession infer an interval of time between, but we... | |
| 1917 - 714 pages
...Creative Evolution, p. 5. ward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the...the interval of time as a whole with its two ends imbedded in it.' 1 ' The content of the duration thus steadily perceived is in a constant flux, events... | |
| William James - Psychology - 1905 - 506 pages
...stern, as it were — a rearward- and 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. Wo do not first feel one end and then feel the other after it, and from the perception of the succession... | |
| Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - God - 1917 - 452 pages
...THE SPECIOUS PRESENT 353 ward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the...the interval of time as a whole with its two ends imbedded in it.' 1 ' The content of the duration thus steadily perceived is in a constant flux, events... | |
| Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - God - 1917 - 450 pages
...stern, as it were—a rearward and a forward-looking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the...the interval of time as a whole with its two ends imbedded in it.' 1 ' The content of the duration thus steadily perceived is in a constant flux, events... | |
| Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1920 - 644 pages
...stern, as it were-^a rearward and 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. .. .The experience is from the outset a synthetic datum, not a simple one; and to sensible perception... | |
| Roy Wood Sellars - Philosophy - 1922 - 378 pages
...stern, as it were — a rearward and 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 .... The experience is from the outset a synthetic datum, not a simple one; and to sensible perception... | |
| Charles Spearman - Cognition - 1923 - 382 pages
...stern, as it were — a rearward- and a forwardlooking end. It is only as parts of this duration-block that the relation of succession of one end to the other is perceived." 2 1 The Alternative, p. 167. Upon this basis many psychologists have committed themselves to a veritable... | |
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