metaphors

Does one consider that an entity changes, in the sense of a full
movement of that entity, from one 'tense' to another? That is, is
Koichiro's present tense (or past tense) differentiated from the
present progressive tense in a serial and linear manner - or in a
hierarchical manner? Isn't an entity living in both the present and
present progressive tenses - at the same spatiotemporal instant? The
difference is in the level of complexity of potential interactions.

This compares with such other multiple levels (and I don't mean
multiple worlds) as Aristotle's potential and actual and the
logical levels of subject and predicate. These levels are separate,
do not merge, and yet, are constantly interfiliated with each other.
They couldn't exist except within that interfiliation.

Edwina Taborsky
Bishop's University Phone:(819)822.9600 Ext.2424
Lennoxville, Quebec Fax: (819)822.9661
Canada JIM 1Z7
Received on Wed Dec 09 09:56:32 1998