Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Reflections on Pre-Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 November 2009 12:37:22AM 3 points [-]

What was, and what will be is fixed to what it actually was and what it actually will be, but the same applies to what could be, that is what could be is also fixed to what it actually could be.

As it could have been in the beginning, so it could have been now, and forever could have been going to be.

Comment author: LauraABJ 10 November 2009 03:19:17AM 2 points [-]

I'm a fan of the particular prior tense myself. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/today-we-learn.php

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 November 2009 04:11:08AM 6 points [-]

Years ago, Jennifer Rodriguez-Mueller and I invented the genre of Tense Poetry. An example:

It did not do
what would have been done
had
what it could have done
if it had not done
what it did do
not been done.
Comment author: cousin_it 10 November 2009 09:50:26AM 1 point [-]

I love the idea, and the indentation structure reminds me of code.

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 November 2009 09:43:48AM 1 point [-]

This calls for Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations!

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