Paul Ricoeur’s Interpretation Theory argues that meaning and speech (or even thought) requires a noun and a verb and that verbs always bring an element of time to the predication which is essential to meaning.
Do you buy that?
Are there any true aorists, utterly undifferentiated as to time [c.f. Porter]? Is that a gnomic aorist?
And is this just to do with English or all languages?
As I may have mentioned before, we’ve talked in doctrine of God classes about the fact that some kind of eternal atemporal predication is needed for God, though not easily available in English.
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