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- adjective Of or pertaining to
retention - adjective
retaining
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Examples
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It is not that the present remembers and anticipates in an "intentional"--retentional and protentional--sense.
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It is not that the present remembers and anticipates in an "intentional"--retentional and protentional--sense.
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That is, the retentional structure of consciousness captures the just past qualities of intentional content only by capturing the just past experience of that intentional consciousness.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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The retentional structure of experience, that is, the fact that when I am experiencing something, each occurrent moment of consciousness does not simply disappear at the next moment but is kept in an intentional currency, constitutes a coherency that stretches over an experienced temporal duration.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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In principle, the retentional-impressional-protentional structure of reflection cannot overlay the retentional-impressional-protentional structure of pre-reflective experience in complete simultaneity.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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The temporal (retentional-impressional-protentional) structure of consciousness not only allows for the experience of temporally extended objects or intentional contents, but also entails the self-manifestation of consciousness, that is, its pre-reflective self-awareness.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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But if the glans penis can be covered with the foreskin during all this playing together, it will enable the husband to prolong his "retentional time" far beyond what he otherwise could.
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(perception, memory, imagination, etc.) has a common temporal structure such that any moment of experience contains a retentional reference to past moments of experience, a current openness (primal impression) to what is present, and a protentional anticipation of the moments of experience that are just about to happen.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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At the same time that I am aware of a melody, for example, I am co-aware of my ongoing experience of the melody through the retentional structure of that very experience ” and this just is the pre-reflective self-awareness of experience (cf. Zahavi
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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