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    It is not the case that The present moment ('now') possesses two distinct parts or aspects despite being temporally unextended.

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    • 1.Brentano's plerosis relies on a distinction between directional modes of bounding, but these modes are properties of relations, not intrinsic parts of the boundary itself.
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    • 2.A thing has parts only if it can be decomposed into numerically distinct constituents; relational or directional properties do not generate such constituents.
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    • 3.Therefore, the present moment's dual directedness toward past and future yields no genuine parts, only a single entity with two extrinsic relational roles.
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    • 1.McTaggart's A-series analysis shows that 'past' and 'future' are indexical predicates that apply successively to the same moment, not simultaneously to distinct aspects of it.
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    • 2.If 'end of the past' and 'beginning of the future' are just successive A-determinations of one unextended instant, positing two aspects conflates temporal perspective with ontological structure.
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    • 3.Grounding the 'parts' of now in indexical perspective rather than intrinsic structure makes plerosis a semantic convenience, not a metaphysical discovery about the present moment.
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    • 1.The concept of plerosis holds that a boundary can bound in multiple directions, giving it 'parts' even without dimensions.
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    • 2.The present moment exists only as a boundary between past and future.
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    • 3.A boundary between past and future bounds in two directions: it is the end of the past and the beginning of the future.
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