Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

  • -- George H. Mead 乔治·H·米德

我们似是而非的礼物是如此的短暂。然而,我们确实经历了一些转瞬即逝的事件;事件通过的部分过程直接存在于我们的经验中,包括一些过去和一些未来。

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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

毫无疑问,哲学家甚至有权研究所有语言结构中的那些区别……在这种情况下,这种区别可以归结为一种庸俗的错误,这种错误应当在哲学上加以纠正。

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

当我们举办音乐会时,我们希望它们是戏剧活动——与设计师、编舞和导演合作——因为我们认为传统的摇滚音乐会很无聊。

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

即使是一个孩子生命中的一件小事,也是这个孩子的世界的一件大事,因此也是一个世界大事。

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

你是一个巨大的物体,你可以用巨大的望远镜看到很远很远的地方。