and after—the temporal sequence pervades mind and matter alike.”
Time the form of the internal sense, and space the form of the external sense.
Theory of Relativity—the time-units of both time and space are neither points nor moments—but moments in the history of a point.
W. James—Within a definite limited interval of duration known as the specious present there is the direct perception of the temporal relations.
After an event has passed beyond the specious present it can only enter into consciousness by reproductive memory.
James—“The Object of Memory is only an object imagined in the past to which the emotion of belief adheres.”
Temporal experience divided into three qualitatively distinct intervals: the remembered past, the perceived specious present, and the anticipated future—By means of the tripartite division we are able to inject our present selves into the temporal stream of our own experience.
By arrangement of temporal orders of past with temporal orders of future—we can construct a temporal order of our specious presents and their contents.
Thus time has its roots in experience and yet appears to be a dimension in which experiences and their contents are to be arranged.
Thus the stuff from which time is made is of the nature of experienced data.
The Zenonian paradoxes: Achilles cannot catch up with the almost here save by occupying an infinity of positions.
A flying arrow cannot remain where it is, nor be where it is not.
These things do not deal with space or time but with the properties of infinite assemblages and dense series (Americana).
Weber’s at midnight: The waiters in Weber’s standing in a group in their black coats and white boiled shirts—
All around the great mirrors reflecting there—for a moment a strange picture I thought of TIME!
The horrible monotony of the French—Weber’s at midnight some Frenchmen in evening dress—the heavy eyelids—the dangling legs—the look of weary vitality—
Then in come some “Parisiennes”—God! God! All sizes and shapes and all the same—Unfit for anything else in the world, and not good for
