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Re: [lojban] Events
This is well outside of my areas of expertise, but, it would seem to me that time would have no meaning without events.
On Wed, 18 April 2001, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
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> <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 4/18/2001 12:48:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
> <BR>xod@sixgirls.org writes:
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> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Is it a concidence that the most basic event abstractor (NU) is refers to
> <BR>'events', and 'events' are the points of space-time?
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> <BR>It is not a coincidence that the basic event abstractor refers to events, and
> <BR>that the word "event" is used in describing it. The second part is also not
> <BR>a coincidence, because the correlation does not occur: events are not the
> <BR>points of space-time. At best, events are what happen at such points, by
> <BR>which we pick out some as interesting.</FONT>
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