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    It is not the case that Broad's model does not clearly meet the requirements of the Strong Continuity Thesis

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    • 1.The Strong Continuity Thesis requires that successive phases of a stream be experienced as flowing into one another
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    • 2.The Strong Continuity Thesis requires experiential connections between stream-phases
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    • 3.Two successive extended acts of sensing — however temporally close — are entirely distinct acts of awareness
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    • 1.Broad's 'specious present' is constituted by discrete, non-overlapping acts of sensing that lack any intrinsic phenomenal 'flow' between them.
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    • 2.William James's requirement for temporal consciousness demands a 'transitive' felt passage, which discrete Broadian acts cannot generate from their mere succession.
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    • 3.Without intrinsic phenomenal flow, Broad's model can only produce a logical series of moments, not the experienced continuity the Strong Continuity Thesis demands.
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    • 1.Husserl's retention structure embeds earlier phases as living intentional content within the current moment, providing genuine intra-experiential connection across time.
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    • 2.Broad's model lacks any analogue to Husserlian retention, meaning prior sensing-acts are merely remembered rather than phenomenally retained within the present act.
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    • 3.A model that reduces temporal binding to memory rather than retention cannot satisfy Strong Continuity, since memory is episodic and inferential, not a flowing experiential connection.
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