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Re: CHAT: relative tense

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 2:43
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=
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> > 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. -- Carlos Th http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ Luh=EDz=F9langk=FBr=EB puh=EDz=F9langy=EFm=EAr=EB Luh=EDz=F9langk=FBr=EB puh=E9v=F9lay=EFm=EAyih=EDz=F9 -- Hangkerim proverb Vec=FBr=EBrangk=FBr=EB -- Hangkerim proverb