Our specious present as suc... by George Herbert Mead, an American Philosopher

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“Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.”

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George Herbert Mead

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Name: George Herbert Mead

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Feb 27, 1863

Date of Death: Apr 26, 1931

Profession: Philosopher

Protagoras Roger Bacon Edmund Husserl

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Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

George Herbert Mead

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Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

George Herbert Mead

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