present as instantaneous.

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Clay (a pseudonym for E. Robert Kelly) wrote in The Alternative: A Study in Psychology (1882):

The concept was developed by philosopher William James. In his 1886 article "The Perception of Time", he wrote that "the prototype of all conceived times is the specious present, the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible". In The Principles of Psychology (1890) James

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