Abstractum Now: Moments Overlap, Husserl, para 239, Supplementary B1 to: On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

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Abstractum Now:

Moments Overlap

Edmund Husserl

On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

B: Supplementary Texts

II

The Suspension of Objective Time, The Temporal Object, The Phenomenology of Objectivation and its Aporiae

No. 29

Meinong’s Distinction between Distributed and Undistributed Objects

From Paragraph 239

Certainly consciousness must reach out beyond the now. It must do this in each momentary act. But the momentary act is not the perception of the temporal object; on the contrary, it is an abstractum. In order for the perception of the temporal object to be possible, not only the final act but every momentary act must be overlapping; the perception, which itself is extended, distributed, consists in the fusion of these overlapping acts. None of these acts is entitled to be called perception. (234bc, boldface and underline mine)

From Paragraph 241

One point by itself is indeed nothing. (234d)

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Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Vol 4 of Edmund Husserl: Collected Works. Ed. Rudolf Bernet. Trans. John Barnett Brough. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.