From ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk Sat Mar 6 22:46:41 2010 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: selbri as sumti Date: Tue Mar 28 17:12:09 1995 In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 26 Mar 95 12:42:57 EST.) Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Mar 28 17:12:09 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: Jorge: > > The x1 is an individual event, with, as you > > say, determinate sumti, but also with determinate time. The x2 > > obviously is not the same event, & I don't see why (especially if > > we reason from a glico notion of recurrence) it has to be an event > > identical to the x1 in all respects other than tense. > Maybe because the time in which it happens is one of the least important > identifying characteristics of an event, so that two that only differ > in that are almost perceived as the same, just like today's John is > almost perceived as the same as yesterday's John. There are of course a multiplicity of possible differences between individual events. Their places, their causes, their results, their speed, their rhythm, etc. etc. may all differ. --- And