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  • adjective Of or pertaining to protention

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  • It is not that the present remembers and anticipates in an "intentional"--retentional and protentional--sense.

    Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

  • It is not that the present remembers and anticipates in an "intentional"--retentional and protentional--sense.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • (perception, memory, imagination, etc.) has a common temporal structure such that any moment of experience contains a retentional reference to past moments of experience, a current openness (primal impression) to what is present, and a protentional anticipation of the moments of experience that are just about to happen.

    Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006

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