Reflection encounters a fullness it cannot capture, and that shortfall presents the fullness as having existed prior to and independently of the reflective act.

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The pre-reflective immediacy that reflection seems to lose is an après-coup illusion: it is produced by the failure, not lost to it — so the split is ontological, not epistemological.untested-default

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