name clash: equals(E) in and equals(java.lang.Object)

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I am getting this error but i don't know how to fix it

name clash: equals(E) in and equals(java.lang.Object) in java.lang.Object have the same erasure, yet neither overrides the other

I have created a generic sorted set and everything else works apart from the equals method which is in the comparator

Here is the code in question

public Comparator<E> comparator(){
    
    	return new Comparator<E>() {
  	
            public int compare(E obj1, E obj2) {
                Node<E> node1 = (Node) obj1;
    			Node<E> node2 = (Node) obj2;
                
     			return node1.compareTo(node2.getContents());            
            }	

  			public boolean equals(E obj) {            	         	
        		if (!(obj instanceof OrderedLinkedList)) {
                    return false;
        		}

        		Node<E> newNode = (Node) obj;
        		return current.getContents().equals(newNode.getContents());
        	}
    	};
    }

I have included the files to create the sorted set. I have a Node class which creates a node object and the linked list class which implements the SortedSet interface with all of the methods overwritten