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    Husserl's retentional model shows that experiencing succe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Realists' position is compatible with the Strong Continuity Thesis

    Husserl's retentional model shows that experiencing succession requires the co-presence of retention and primal impression within one act.

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    • 1.Consciousness of a melody requires grasping notes as temporally ordered, impossible if each moment existed in isolation.
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    • 2.Retention of the just-past and primal impression of the now must coexist in one intentional act to constitute temporal flow.
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    • 3.This model explains how we experience duration as a unified phenomenon rather than as discrete, disconnected moments.
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    • 1.Co-presence of retention and primal impression within a single act may conflate the structure of consciousness with temporal succession itself.
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    • 2.The model risks circularity: it assumes temporal unity to explain how we experience temporal unity, without independent justification.
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    • 3.Empirical evidence suggests protention (anticipation) plays equal explanatory role, challenging retention-primal impression as sufficient.
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