different points in time & different points of time
English translation: different points of or in time
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| 11:06 Jun 2, 2008 |
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|  Selected response from: Gemma Monco Waters Italy Local time: 13:15 | ||||||
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different points of or in time Explanation: Now that the question is closed I want to say what I think: this is not a question of science, but of philosophy. We all know what flow of consciousness is: and I suppose many of you have studied French philosopher, Henri Bergson, who, with his theories contributed to the birth of flow of consciousness. Now if, like Bergson, we believe that there is no past and there is no future, but reality is like a line that runs along continually, I cannot say yesterday or tomorrow, because everything is happening now, on this everflowing line. Different points in time means that we have stopped, in this continual flow, and observed some events, like we were from the outside, looking in, while different points of time are events that might have happened or not, might still happen or not: they belong to this flow that does not end and might not happens. I do not know if I made myself clear, but I see the difference. |
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different points in time Explanation: It's not that there's a difference, but that "different points of time" is not proper usage of the term. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2008-06-02 14:40:03 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, but I stand by my original answer and any extravagant explanation does not deter from the fact that we are talking about language usage here, and "points of time" is something a non-native may say but it is not a true, correct native usage; anyhow a point "of" time, if you insist on using it, is no different than a point "in" time except for the fact that the former gives away the fact that the speaker is a non-native to the English language. I cannot help but wonder if friends pose questions for friends in order to gain Kudos points unethically because the amount of disinformation being disseminated through this board is alarming. On multiple occasions I have witnessed a blatant ignorance of the true answer in favor of a much less accurate one, and this disappointing. |
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