Re: tense and atemporality

Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> I'm trying to figure out whether it is _right now_ the case
> that {mi jbena fi li 1966;}, or whether it is nonsense to
> say that {mi jbena fi li 1966;} is true at some time or another.
> Isn't it just an atemporal relationship between {mi} and {li 1966;}?

On my view, it is _right now_ the case that do jbena fi li 1966 iff
you were actually born then. In other words, jbena holds either always
or never.

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