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Article 1206 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Sapir-Whorf
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Date: 5 Nov 91 23:57:00 GMT
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The original document on Sapir-Whorf containted a comment about
the absence of a future tense in Proto-Indo-European.  The author
concluded that causal reasoning was therefore impossible.

Note carefully.  Modern English does not contain an absolute
future tense.  Modern English can form a future concept only
with the help of auxiliary verbs.

Should the academic world conclude that causal reasoning is
impossible in Modern English? :-)

Michael E. Moriarty
Communication Arts Department
Valley City State University
Valley City, North Dakota 58072 (2 degrees above zero/6:03CDT/11.5.91)


