Specious Present

Point of Departure

The term dates to the late 19th Century as discussed in the enwiki article.

DCP Discourse Contexts

• The specious present is the time frame of an episode of discourse between DCP and its users. It has a real time frame which is that of the real time of the dialog session between DCP and the user(s) from the first sentence by a DCP agent to the last one.


• During the real time of the dialog, the sentences as occurring in the dialog channel are parsed by DCP, in their natural order of occurrence. At a given moment the sentence currently being parsed is called the Now Sentence.