{"id":3404,"date":"2020-01-16T05:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/for-and-because-a-linguistic-quibble\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:56:25","slug":"for-and-because-a-linguistic-quibble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/for-and-because-a-linguistic-quibble\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;For&#8217; and &#8216;Because&#8217;: A Linguistic Bagatelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My sense of the English language tells me that (1) below, but not (2), is good English.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">1) On presentism, what no longer exists, does not exist at all. For on presentism, only the present exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">2) On presentism, what no longer exists, does not exist at all. Because on presentism, only the present exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As I see it, (1) is good English because &#39;for&#39; in a context like this means &#39;it is because.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sense of the English language tells me that (1) below, but not (2), is good English. 1) On presentism, what no longer exists, does not exist at all. For on presentism, only the present exists. 2) On presentism, what no longer exists, does not exist at all. Because on presentism, only the present exists. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/for-and-because-a-linguistic-quibble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;For&#8217; and &#8216;Because&#8217;: A Linguistic Bagatelle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}