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    It is not the case that The Extensional model's specious present smuggles in a reified temporal container that James's phenomenological account explicitly sought to dissolve.

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    • 1.Any account of the specious present—including James's—must specify its temporal extent, which doesn't logically entail metaphysical reification.
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    • 2.The distinction between describing time's phenomenal structure and positing an ontological container is philosophically meaningful and avoidable.
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    • 3.James himself used temporal language and boundaries in his descriptions, suggesting some structural scaffolding is inevitable and compatible with his project.
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    • 1.James rejected the notion that consciousness consists of discrete, isolable moments, emphasizing instead continuous flow.
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    • 2.The extensional model treats the specious present as a bounded interval, implicitly assuming a container-like structure for time.
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    • 3.James's phenomenology aimed to describe experience as it appears, not to impose metaphysical structures that distort lived temporality.
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