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" ... a universe unfinished, with doorways and home windows open to probabilities uncontrollable in advance." 1 possible which William James will surely no longer have envisaged is a phenomenological analyzing of his philosophy. Given James's character, possible simply think the explosive commen tary he might make on any try and situate his intentionally unsystematic writings inside of someone philosophical mainstream. but, in recent times, the main fruitful scholarship on William James has resulted from a disagreement among his philosophy and the phe nomenology of Husserl. The very unlikelihood of the sort of comparability renders the entire extra attention-grabbing the extraordinary convergence of views that involves gentle whilst the basic initiatives of James and HusserI are juxtaposed. firstly view, not anything should be extra alien to the pragmatic mentality with its consistent distrust of any international process than a philosophy whose easy force is to find absolute wisdom and whose aim is to set up itself as a definite and common technology.
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As a given sensible totality emerges from the vague continuity of the perceptual stream to be qualified and identi- SENSATION, PERCEPTION, CONCEPTION 25 fied by conceptual thought, the focus thus achieved is always due to the activity of selective attention. Thus the passive pre-structuration of the perceptual field is complemented by the discerning activity of consciousness, which continually reshapes the patterns of experience on an ascending scale from the most primitive selectivity of sensation to the most complex conceptual operations.
Our feeling ... is quite different from what it would be were the thunder a continuation of previous thunder ... 1 9 Both our language and our conceptual systems tend to dissimulate the transitive currents of the stream of consciousness. In the rhythm of language, each sentence is terminated by a period. By naming certain aspects of the stream we isolate these aspects artificially from the fringe area of perception surrounding them. Thus, language tends to accentuate the moments of relative repose in the flow of experience.
It is rather a feeling of tendency, an "empty" fringe which awaits fulfillment from the immediately subsequent data of the flow of consciousness. So also, there is a peculiar state of consciousness when we try to recall a forgotten name. In this case, there is a certain gap in consciousness, but a gap which orients us in a definite direction. It is not just any name that will fulfill the expectancy, for the " ... " 22 In this example, it would seem that the fringe surrounding the word is present to our consciousness without the word itself being yet present.