How To Use pastness In A Sentence
- It calls up the seeming paradox of writing a history, an account of pastness, of things that are of the relative present.
- Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
- There is a patina of pastness and folkloric authenticity that pervades the marketplace.
- Past actions and characters are determinate because of their very pastness.
- The nostalgic gaze sacralizes concepts, objects, forms, and states from the past and reproduces them in a present that simulates and commodifies their pastness.
- Writing like this feels too casual to carry much conviction, and it minimizes the pastness of the past. The Times Literary Supplement
- Yet pastness and futurity, he argued, are inherently contradictory; so nothing in reality can correspond to them.
- Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.
- Reid grants that perceptions, memories and imaginings often differ in degree of force and vivacity, but, he argues, this difference is insufficient to account for the special quality of presentness represented in perceptions, the special quality of pastness represented in memories, and the special quality of atemporality represented in imaginings. Reid on Memory and Personal Identity
- a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past
