We acknowledge the force of this paradox, however, only for the logically observed object. The subjectively lived life will not adjust to it. The latter feels itself, no matter whether logically justified or not, as something real in a temporal dimension. Common usage indicates this, if in an inexact and superficial way, by understanding under "present" never the bare punctuality of its conceptual sense, but always including a bit of the past and a somewhat smaller bit of the future.

DEFINE: Explains the phenomenological distinction between the logically observed instant and the lived present, which always includes imminence and retention.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 803