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Temporality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a particular form of experience which can be discussed when we are in the presence of a combination of the following three ingredients: An impression, an anticipation, and a tail-of-the-comet-like retention.

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Temporality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠comprised of three aspects of experience: 'Primal impression,' 'retention' and 'protention.' all three must be in place for the proper experience of a temporal object, or of the duration of a non-temporal object.

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Temporality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠constituted by a consciousness that is not itself temporal. Subjective time becomes constituted in the absolute timeless consciousness, which is not an object.

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Temporality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the problem of how is it that we have an experience of succession rather than simply a succession of experiences.

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Temporality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠why a melody is heard as a melody: the note just gone is not remembered but still held, sinking back, in the living now, quite unlike recalling yesterday's concert, which reproduces rather than retains.