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    If the present experience is ontologically unrepeatable a... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The present experience contains both uniqueness (event) and repeatability simultaneously.

    If the present experience is ontologically unrepeatable at the level of actual occasions, then what recurs is an abstraction, not the experience itself, rendering the claim equivocal on 'present experience'.

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    abstraction(Godfrey, Quodlibet V, q. 10)
    The process by which the agent intellect draws out potentially intelligible content from phantasms, making that content available to the possible intellect
    actual occasions(referring to real, specific instances of experience)
    Individual, concrete moments or events as they really happen in the world (a term from philosopher Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy).
    equivocal(Contrasted with analogical predication; Aquinas denies that 'good' applied to God and creatures is purely equivocal.)
    Using a term in wholly unrelated senses across different applications.
    ontologically(contrasted with semantically in the statement)
    Relating to what actually exists or is real, rather than just what words mean or how we talk about things.

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    unrepeatable(describing whether an experience can occur more than once)
    Cannot happen or occur again in exactly the same way; impossible to duplicate or recreate.

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