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    It is not the case that No experience is possible that does not essentially and inseparably contain both the agency of event and the agency of repeatability.

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    • 1.Pure immediacy experiences, such as the specious present described by William James, may be constituted prior to any retentional or protentional structure.
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    • 2.If a moment of raw sensory shock (e.g., sudden intense pain) is apprehended before memory-structure is operative, repeatability is not a co-constitutive feature but a subsequent addition.
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    • 3.Therefore, at least some experiences are possible whose essential structure is singular eventhood without the simultaneous agency of repeatability.
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    • 1.Husserl's account of internal time-consciousness grounds retention and protention in the living present, making repeatability a phenomenological achievement rather than a transcendental necessity.
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    • 2.If repeatability is achieved rather than necessary, then a degraded or pathological consciousness (as in severe anterograde amnesia studied by Tulving) can sustain episodes of experience without operative repeatability-structure.
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    • 3.Derrida's claim that both agencies are inseparable thus conflates an empirically contingent coupling with a constitutive necessity.
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    • 1.The present experience is an event insofar as it is singular and unrepeatable.
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    • 2.The present experience is not an event insofar as it is repeatable through memory and anticipation.
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    • 3.These two characteristics — singularity and repeatability — obtain simultaneously in every present experience.
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