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Comment by bartvk

>should include a timestamp. In fact, this extends to almost anything online and even offline.

This was one of the ideas in the General Semantics philisophy. You don't much hear about it nowadays, it's a pre-war thing. One of the tenants was that you should date expressions. For example, if referring to a person, you'd write "Roosevelt, 1930" because a year later, Roosevelt may behave like a different person altogether.

parent bartvk 3 years ago

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