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nsieffer commented on the word protention
Protention: Latin, enduring, extending, the word is sometimes contrasted to retention in memory, I came across the word in a German philosophy text on Kant. It is probably a cognate of the Latin protendo, to stretch forth, to extend
March 31, 2009