Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:43:32 -0500 (EST)
From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject: Re: selbri as sumti
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And:
> > Since krefu
> > has a place for the position but not for the dimension (and I hope
> > nobody decides to add one) I think it is reasonable to expect that the
> > only thing that changes from one occurrence to the next is the time.
> And not the place, the effects, the manner, or anything else? That
> is, if you magically swap the events round in time, the world remains
> not perceptibly altered? This is excessively & pointlessly restrictive.

You're right, of course. Let me try again: It is reasonable to expect
that reccurrences are described by the same predicate applied to the
same referents. Things that are not part of the predicate will in general
vary, but the variation in the time is what orders the recurrences. (You
need some order to make sense of the x3 of krefu.) You could say that
every event is a recurrence of every other event, but that is excessively
& pointlessly unrestrictive. I'm not proposing any strict rule, just
saying what I would consider to be a recurrence.

Jorge