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    Supports→Experience of the present is always complicated by non-presence, which Derrida calls 'the trace'.

    Therefore the present is never a simple experience of something fully given, but is always infiltrated by non-presence.

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    This basic argument contains four important implications. First, experience as the experience of the present is never a simple experience of something present over and against me, right before my eyes as in an intuition; there is always another agency there. Repeatability contains what has passed away and is no longer present and what is about to come and is not yet present. The present therefore is always complicated by non-presence. Derrida calls this minimal repeatability found in every exper

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