Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... of the one to the other. Successiveness between two particular feelings is a distinct nameable from either of the two feelings. It can hardly be regarded as either an existent or an occurrent. It is a relation, between two occurrents. 83. The relation called successiveness is a possibility of a certain feeling, namely, the feeling that-one-thing-tookplace-after-another. This feeling is one of the class of feelings which we call remembrance. It is of course an implicant feeling; it implies the occurrence of two other feelings, the antecedent and the consequent. 83a. It may be well here to give a little further consideration to the meaning of the word Time. What is meant by two things taking place at the same time? Memory gives the notion of time. The first form of the notion of time is prseterition prseteriteness, priority to the present instant. Memory can, with more or less certainty, declare the order of past occurrents. They are all past; they all took place before the present state of consciousness; but some took place before others. Memory presents to the person a series of past occurrents having different degrees of prseterition. This gives the notion of greater or less duration of time. That occurrent seems to him the most distant in past time the most prseterite, between which and the present instant memory suggests the greatest number of occurrents. We all know how long eventful days, days full of incident, seem to us. Doubtless memory also declares to the person directly the less, or greater, degree of prseterition of a remembered occurrent. There is an intensity of the feeling of prseterition attending the remembrance of a particular past occurrent, independent of any notion or feeling of intervening past occurrents. But there is no doubt it is...
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