The myth of the specious present
Mind 94 (373):19-35 (1985)
| Abstract | The doctrine of the specious present holds that sensation at an instant encompasses objects as they are over an interval. Now there actually is intersubjective agreement with respect to past, present, and future determinations, and it is a necessary condition for legitimately postulating them as objective. I argue that the specious present doctrine would make this actuality an impossibility, and that the data on which the doctrine is based do not in fact support it. | |||||||||
| Keywords | sensation motion memory phenomenology William James McTaggart A-determinations B-relations | |||||||||
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