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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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