In other words, all music — regardless of age — is ideally immediate and timeless, and as the technology of reproducing music — regardless of age — improves, the "pastness" of music falls away.    From Wordnik.com.  [We should be on by now] Reference

Condillac's reasoning is less than explicit at this point, but he seems to have taken this experience to provide us with an awareness of what we might call the "pastness" of the echo, and at the same time of the continued existence of an identical self which experienced both the past perception and the current ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Étienne Bonnot de Condillac] Reference

There may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of "pastness," especially where immediate memory is concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference

In other words, all music-regardless of age-is ideally immediate and timeless, and as the technology of reproducing music-regardless of age-improves, the "pastness" of music falls away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soho the Dog] Reference

I suppose the point I take issue with is that the pastness never exactly falls away.    From Wordnik.com.  [We should be on by now] Reference

The pastness of the event apprehended is not part of the content of the past apprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reid on Memory and Personal Identity] Reference

Furthermore, Russell's theory is consistent with one's being mistaken about the pastness of the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference

But it is not at all clear that pastness per se puts something outside the realm of our causal control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

Rather, it is pastness in conjunction with the metaphysical law that causes must precede their effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreknowledge and Free Will] Reference

Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change] Reference

It may break out of space or out of time, a pastness or futurity suddenly erupting within or descending upon the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors and others] Reference

Rather than explain how sensation can give rise to an awareness of pastness Condillac simply helped himself to the notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Étienne Bonnot de Condillac] Reference

(“Mad Men” owes some of its success to the warmth of its pastness, to the feeling of respite from change, of fastidious restoration, that it provides.).    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott] Reference

At the same time there had been awakened an interest in the sheer pastness of things past, a genuine sentiment for the remnants that had happened to survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference

By "representations of pastness," Tonkin explains, she means "chains of words, either spoken or written, ordered in patterns of discourse that represent events.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

For Marjorie Levinson such a "self-consciously belated" critical practice mobilizes "our consciousness to cure the past of its objectivity: in effect, its pastness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing About the Past] Reference

For Marjorie Levinson such a "self-consciously belated" (1986, 12) critical practice mobilizes "our consciousness to cure the past of its objectivity: in effect, its pastness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing About the Past] Reference

I have three books published under my own name and another one in gestation (but please can we not talk about it right now because the nearness – okay, the pastness – of the deadline makes me cry).    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Love Thy Editor] Reference

The dynamic element of time must be represented, in McTaggart's view, by the series of properties of pastness, presentness, and futurity, which (in contrast to the static B-series) are constantly changing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Being and Becoming in Modern Physics] Reference

Khale and tolo, for example, both constitute pastness as a separate, synchronic state that exists in opposition to the present ( "now," swoswi; "today," namuntlha), and khale in particular is infused with idealistic judgement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

But if the pastness of the past is not so certain, because the future is so uncertain, if regress seems possible, then the Communists will cease to be patrons, encouraging curators to restore the past; they will be at action stations instead, finished with contemplation for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on China] Reference

This calculus of ˜pure futurity™ he transformed into a calculus of ˜pure pastness™ by replacing F throughout the axioms, rules, and definition, by the past tense operator P (˜It has been the case that™), and replacing G by the past perpetual operator H (˜It has always been the case that™).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Is Not] Reference

Reid grants that perceptions, memories and imaginings often differ in degree of force and vivacity, but, he argues, this difference is insufficient to account for the special quality of presentness represented in perceptions, the special quality of pastness represented in memories, and the special quality of atemporality represented in imaginings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reid on Memory and Personal Identity] Reference

As "representations of pastness," spoken historical narratives are, as Elizabeth Tonkin has described oral history, "actively 'dialogic': they are social activities in real time," their meaning depending on the occasion for and objective of the performance, on shared rhetorical rules and expectations of genre, and on the relationship between teller and audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

˜laws which relate to the interaction of pastness and futurity™, were also required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Is Not] Reference

In the latter case, but not in the former, the pastness is part of the content believed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference

The staged retreat of Anglo-Britain, by contrast, brought a compensatory turning to pastness.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

So, in memory, the pastness lies, not in the content of what is believed, but in the nature of the belief-feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference

We want them to see the relevance of history in their own lives, even as we want them to understand and respect the pastness of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [History News Network] Reference

When art is thought about as one continuous chronicle of painters, the effect is that the pastness of past art can disappear and the canvas that is still wet can have a larger historical significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Review of Books] Reference

In the case of the shorter distance, because of its shortness, after the finger leaves it, it is held in a present state of consciousness for some moments, and does not suffer the foreshortening that comes from pastness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

Maybe a conventional Earth cosmologist who “switches” the pastness/futureness of some reasonably isolated environment (like a space ship) she’s embedded in?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll] Reference

James states that it is this way of apprehending the immediate past that is "the ORIGINAL of our experience of pastness, from whence we get the meaning of the term.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference

“Although she comes in many guises, she’s the female face at the heart of the sociocultural nostalgia that structures Springsteen’s sense of pastness throughout his work,” the paper’s abstract explains.    From Wordnik.com.  [August « 2005 « Gerry Canavan] Reference

Simultaneously understood, then, as a way of representing pastness, maps illuminate how place is integral to the way "the past" is culturally constituted, to memory and the range of forms through which memories are made and expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

When a remembered event has a remembered context, this may occur in two ways, either (a) by successive images in the same order as their prototypes, or (b) by remembering a whole process simultaneously, in the same way in which a present process may be apprehended, through akoluthic sensations which, by fading, acquire the mark of just-pastness in an increasing degree as they fade, and are thus placed in a series while all sensibly present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference

We may say, then, that images are regarded by us as more or less accurate copies of past occurrences because they come to us with two sorts of feelings: (1) Those that may be called feelings of familiarity; (2) those that may be collected together as feelings giving a sense of pastness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis of Mind] Reference