specious present
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Although painting is essentially a spatial art, it includes a temporal element, the "specious present," the single moment of action or of motion.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
Succession can occur within the specious present, of which we can distinguish some parts as earlier and others as later.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
The specious present includes elements at all stages on the journey from sensation to image.
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
Everything belonging to it is included with sensation in what is called the "specious present."
From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand
So far as the two events are practically adjacent in one specious present, this continuity of passage may be directly perceived.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
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