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On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 02:36 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 January 2010 06:13:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"? |
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> "The present; the moment we're existing in." |
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> More profound: what does "time" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"? |
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Simple! "time" refers to the common labels (days, hours, etc) that we |
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have attempted to put on the changing (or decaying) nature of our |
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environment. ie. how many hours passed the rising of the sun. |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana! |