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    It is not the case that The present experience contains both uniqueness (event) and repeatability simultaneously.

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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology distinguishes retention (passive givenness of the just-past) from memory (active re-presentation), making retention non-repeatable by definition.
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    • 2.If retention is constitutively different from recollection, then the 'repeatability' in the supporting argument conflates two structurally distinct temporal operations.
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    • 3.Without genuine repeatability in the living present, uniqueness and repeatability cannot be genuinely simultaneous — only sequentially related through distinct acts.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Whitehead's process philosophy holds that each actual occasion perishes absolutely upon completion, making genuine repeatability a category error applied to lived events.
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    • 2.If the present experience is ontologically unrepeatable at the level of actual occasions, then what recurs is an abstraction, not the experience itself, rendering the claim equivocal on 'present experience'.
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    • 1.What is happening right now is a kind of event different from every other now previously experienced.
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    • 2.In the present, one remembers the recent past and anticipates what is about to happen.
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    • 3.Memory and anticipation consist in repeatability: what is experienced now can be immediately recalled and is therefore repeatable.
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