American Pragmatism and European Social Theory
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
The Jamesian notion of the ‘stream of consciousness’is closely related to the epochal theory of time. It also stems from an attempt to resolve the old aporia contained in Zeno’s paradoxes. Time flows like a‘river’ or a ‘stream,’ but still it grows by ‘drops’ or ‘buds.’ These basic units of time are whole and indivisible, but they do not ‘crack’ or ‘divide’reality. Other process philosophies als...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2036-4091
DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.773