Re: CHAT: relative tense
| From: | Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> | 
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 2:43 | 
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> dunn patrick w wrote:
> > Perhaps a society that doesn't differentiate between past and future,
> > considering both equally illusory and the present to be the only true=
,
> > objective reality.
>
> But in that case, why would they need to distinguish distance?
degree of trueness?  I mean, somthing in the inmediate past or future is
part of the present without being the present.  Something in the distant
past or future is just illusion.
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