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Igel

(35,274 posts)
1. There's a lot of that.
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:45 AM
Nov 2013

People are saying how great the deal is, as though it's already been fully implemented.

Its implementation is yet future.

The future tense is an irrealis tense. Which means it's not real. It hasn't happened, and doesn't rise to the status of fact; it's not happening yet, and isn't a fact. It takes a special kind of deity to call what isn't as though it is, a deity that's both omniscient and omnipotent. I must humbly say that I'm neither. Then again, I don't make much pretense about my own personal "deitiness."

Like lots of other things, it's easy to confuse plans with implementation, words with referents, form with substance. There was great rejoicing at the last Iranian deal. Just like there was rejoicing at the first anti-recession stimulus for the 2008/09 recession. How did those work out?

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