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- noun Plural form of
protention .
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Examples
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Ned received the trust of readers and in that sense he carried our protentions and expectations of how the book would procede.
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Both GRRM & HBO love messin' with their audiences and their protentions & expectations.
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You can see it in 'The Wire' all the way through and it is a massive surprise that blows away all of your protentions about the seeming linearity of the plot.
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But further on in the book I realised all of my protentions were off by a mile, because Bran's disability, and how he deals with it, is a much more powerful plotline than just a temporary shock factor involved in killin' a kid.
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It is by such momentary structures of retentions, original impressions and protentions that moments of time are continuously constituted (and reconstituted) as past, present and future, respectively, so that it looks to the experiencing subject as if time were permanently flowing off.
Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007
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“right now”, and protentions, i.e., immediate anticipations of what will be perceived “in a moment”.
Edmund Husserl Beyer, Christian 2007
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