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    It is not the case that Our judgements about change and continuity in experience are less likely to err than judgements about other experiential features

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    • 1.Ubiquity of a feature increases the risk of projecting conceptual frameworks onto experience rather than accurately reporting it.
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    • 2.Temporal concepts like 'change' and 'continuity' are heavily theory-laden, shaped by language and culture before any introspective act.
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    • 3.Therefore, the very basicness of temporal experience makes it more susceptible to systematic miscategorization, not less.
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    • 1.Husserl and Heidegger both argue that the structure of time-consciousness is precisely what ordinarily escapes reflective grasp, being a condition of experience rather than its content.
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    • 2.Judgements about the conditions of experience are epistemically harder to verify than judgements about experiential contents, since the conditions are not directly presented as objects.
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    • 1.Judgements about experience are less likely to err when they concern more basic and ubiquitous features of consciousness
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    • 2.Change and continuity are among the most basic and ubiquitous features of consciousness
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