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    It is not the case that If retention is constitutively different from recollection, then the 'repeatability' in the supporting argument conflates two structurally distinct temporal operations.

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    • 1.The distinction between retention and recollection may be phenomenologically unclear rather than constitutively different—both involve accessing the no-longer-present.
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    • 2.Conflation only occurs if 'repeatability' requires structural identity; if it merely requires functional similarity across temporal operations, no conflation follows.
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    • 3.Without independent criteria for what counts as 'constitutively different,' the claim risks circularity—defining difference in advance rather than discovering it.
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    • 1.Retention holds content passively within consciousness without re-presentation, while recollection actively retrieves and reconstitutes past experience.
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    • 2.Treating retention and recollection as equivalent temporal operations obscures how retention preserves immediacy while recollection introduces interpretive distance.
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    • 3.Arguments relying on 'repeatability' assume both operations can be iterated identically, yet each recollective act transforms what is retrieved.
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