Charles Sanders Peirce Quote

If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding that would be immediately present, and so on ad infinitum. Now, since there is a time [period], say a year, at the end of which an idea is no longer ipso facto present, it follows that this is true of any finite interval, however short.


The Law of Mind (1892)


If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding...

If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding...

If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding...

If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the same principle, the sensation preceding...