Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:17:21 +0100
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: selbri as sumti
In-reply-to: (Your message of Sun, 26 Mar 95 12:42:57 EST.)
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To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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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.

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And