Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Retentionalist accounts do not face the problem of requiring impossible static momentary experiences.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.A momentary experience whose content merely represents change (via retention) does not itself undergo change, and thus remains a static vehicle of dynamic content.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.The impossibility objection, properly construed by Broad and Husserl's critics, targets the static nature of the experiential vehicle, not merely the represented content.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Retentionalism relocates rather than dissolves the problem: a momentary state encoding temporal flow is still a temporally unextended, static particular.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.If retentional content is itself experienced as past, then the retention must be distinguished from a present-moment impression, requiring a higher-order act to unify them into a single experience.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.This regress, identified by Gurwitsch and later Barry Dainton, means that Retentionalism implicitly presupposes the very extended temporal window it claims to derive from momentary states.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.A Retentionalist specious present is a momentary episode of experiencing whose contents are subjectively dynamic.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.The impossibility objection targets only momentary experiences whose contents are entirely static.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Because Retentionalist specious presents are by hypothesis subjectively dynamic, they satisfy the requirement that all experiences contain an element of change.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.