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    The apparent contradiction between strict philosophical truth and common sense regarding perceiving motion is superficial, not genuine.

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    • 1.Philosophers and ordinary people differ in the meaning they assign to 'the present time'.
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    • 2.This difference in meaning leads them to draw different limits between what counts as sense perception and what counts as memory.
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    • 3.When the source of a supposed contradiction is merely a difference in terminology or meaning, the contradiction is not a real one.
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    • 1.William James's 'specious present' reveals a genuine phenomenological datum: conscious experience has an intrinsic temporal thickness irreducible to conceptual redefinition.
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    • 2.If the temporal extent of perception is a real feature of consciousness rather than a terminological choice, the conflict between physics and phenomenology is substantive, not verbal.
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    • 3.A merely verbal dissolution of the contradiction would leave unexplained why subjects systematically and non-arbitrarily experience motion as unified across temporal intervals.
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    • 1.Husserl's analysis of time-consciousness shows that retention and primal impression are structurally distinct intentional acts, not interchangeable phases of a single semantic convention.
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    • 2.If retention and perception differ in their intentional structure—not merely in how 'present' is defined—then collapsing them via terminological reinterpretation distorts the underlying phenomenology.
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    For Reid the apparent contradiction between strict philosophical truth and common sense (and common experience) is superficial: ‘It arises from this, that philosophers and the vulgar differ in the meaning they put upon what is called the present time, and are thereby led to made a different limit between sense and memory’ (1855: 236). Reid argues that our ordinary talk of ‘seeing’ things move is intelligible, at least on its own terms, because in ordinary life we generally construe the present i
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