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General truths, such as "the earth is round" should be in present tense. Applying the past tense to such a statement would imply that the statement is not universally true, or might no longer be tr...
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2019-12-12T21:57:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T10:29:27Z (almost 5 years ago)
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General truths, such as "the earth is round" should be in present tense. Applying the past tense to such a statement would imply that the statement is not universally true, or might no longer be true. Compare: > Winter is cold. A general statement about the nature of winter, to: > That winter was cold. Implication being that other winters might not have been equally cold. to: > It was winter, and thus - cold. Which implies that winters are cold, but now might not be winter. If you wrote "Earth was round", I would understand that either Earth might no longer exist, or it might no longer be round.
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2019-01-06T00:46:34Z (almost 6 years ago)
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