by Corry Shores
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No. 2
Evidence Pertaining to the Perception of Time, to Memory, etc
Paragraph 34
Husserl will characterize our experience of duration.
We hear note A. It sustains. And thus it endures across a series of moments. Despite the fact that each temporal moment is distinct, the note A retains its identity, even if its qualities fluctuate somewhat while it sustains. Each point in time is continuous with its neighbors. So the same A transits across different moments. In this way, A may continuously be the same A, despite the slight modifications and temporal extents that might distinguish different phases of its perdurance.
What characterizes the experience of duration? A endures; the A belonging to each individual moment of the duration is the identical A, not a separate one. As the time-points are continuously united, so the A is continuously the same. We are conscious of the continuous identity in time. We are conscious of it in such a way that the continuous alteration of A, which attaches itself to the always present A, is not only continuously united with the latter but also finds its fulfillment in it. The past A is continuously the same as the present A. The A is a continuously identical content. (158c, boldface and underlining are mine)
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