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    These two characteristics — singularity and repeatability... — Carmelics
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    Supports→No experience is possible that does not essentially and inseparably contain both the agency of event and the agency of repeatability.

    These two characteristics — singularity and repeatability — obtain simultaneously in every present experience.

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    So, let us start with the simplest argument that we can formulate. If we reflect on experience in general, what we cannot deny is that experience is conditioned by time. Every experience, necessarily, takes place in the present. In the present experience, there is the kernel or point of the now. What is happening right now is a kind of event, different from every other now I have ever experienced. Yet, also in the present, I remember the recent past and I anticipate what is about to happen. The

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