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specious present
specious present Specious present is the experienced “now” understood not as a mathematical instant, but as a brief stretch of duration that makes up the smallest concrete present in consciousness.
Specious present is the experienced “now” understood not as a mathematical instant, but as a brief stretch of duration that makes up the smallest concrete present in consciousness. The term refers to the minimal time-span within which experience is still felt as present, rather than divided into past and future.