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As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience.

Or would you say instead that you remembered the past?

Call this information time. In information time there will be past and future with respect to a particular day. And in memory time, with respect to an event, there will also be past and future.

Now if you want to say that the order of information is memory time, you can. And if you are going to talk about both information and memory time, then you can say that you remember the past.

The person who says only the present is real because past and future are not here has before his mind the image of something moving.

And the person who objects to the assertion that the present alone is real with "Surely the past and future are just as real" somehow does not meet the point.

I) How could the meaning of a sentence about the past be given by a sentence about the present?

The verification of a proposition about the past is a set of propositions involving present and future tenses.

I believe that the greatest achievements in philosophy over the past hundred or one hundred and twenty five years have been in the philosophy of language.

The human larynx is permanently descended in women, children, and infants past the age of 3 months (Lieberman, 1984), all of whom speak or are learning to speak, and none of whom, in comparison with adult males engaged in intrasexual competition, had much evolutionary incentive to exaggerate size if doing so would incur costs in other functions.