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    The specious present of a continuous act of sensing is th... — Carmelics
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    The specious present of a continuous act of sensing is the largest stretch of content apprehended by every phase of that act.

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    • 1.Broad defines the duration of the specious present in terms of momentary acts.
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    • 2.Temporally extended acts do not strictly possess specious presents but possess close analogues.
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    • 3.The analogue of the specious present for an interval of sensing S is the stretch of content apprehended throughout S.
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    • 1.Husserl's retentional model shows that each phase of experience retains the entire preceding temporal arc, not merely a shared middle segment.
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    • 2.If retention grants every phase access to earlier content beyond the intersection D, the 'largest stretch apprehended by every phase' expands beyond Broad's bounded middle content.
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    • 3.Therefore the specious present cannot be identified with the intersection D alone, since retentional consciousness continuously revises what each phase apprehends.
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    • 1.William James argued that the specious present is a directly felt duration whose boundaries are psychologically variable across subjects and sensory modalities.
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    • 2.A definition anchored in the logical intersection of phases across a continuous act imposes a structural uniformity that empirically variable felt duration does not respect.
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    • 3.Privileging the intersection D conflates a formal property of overlapping act-phases with the phenomenologically primary datum of experienced temporal thickness.
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    In the light of what has been said so far, it would be natural to suppose that Broad would identify individual specious presents with momentary acts and the contents these acts apprehend (e.g., the combination A1[C-D] would count as a single specious present). In fact he opted for another position. Agreeing with James that strictly durationless experiences (or apprehensions) are abstractions, Broad insists that a viable account of sensible duration must rest on the foundation of continuous perio
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