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    Challenges→Without genuine repeatability in the living present, uniqueness and repeatability cannot be genuinely simultaneous — only sequentially related through distinct acts.

    The argument conflates epistemological access (how we grasp things) with ontological structure (what things are); simultaneity may be impossible to represent, not impossible to instantiate.

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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    instantiate(as used in metaphysics)
    To be a concrete example of something, or to have and display a particular property or category.
    represent(explaining the relationship between ideas and objects)

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