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    It is not the case that There is no direct argument from experience to the A-theory of time.

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    • 1.The present of experience is temporally extended and concerns the past.
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    • 2.The objective present postulated by the A-theory is very different from the present of experience.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology shows that experienced 'now' is a retentional-protentional structure, not an instantaneous present.
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    • 2.A-theory requires a privileged, instantaneous 'now' that advances through time, which no phenomenal datum directly reveals.
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    • 3.Because the experienced present is constitutively extended and relational, it underdetermines the metaphysical thesis that one moment is objectively NOW.
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    • 1.The B-theorist can explain temporal phenomenology—the felt passage and asymmetry of time—without positing an objective moving present (cf. Mellor, 'Real Time II').
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    • 2.When a theory's explanatory target is fully accountable by a rival theory, experience of that target cannot serve as an argument for the first theory over the second.
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    • 3.Therefore, the phenomenology of passage gives no differential evidential weight to A-theory over B-theory.
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