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Originally Posted by arkain101
Do you mean: Will literally occur before? or Be observed to occur before? A very careful use of language has to be used in these kinds of descriptions, or else, I find, the understanding within the communication becomes uncertain. ...
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Yes, of course. I've been touting the same careful approach to explicit semantic accuracy in other threads. Only I forgot to do it in my last post.
So, to answer your question: events will be
observed to occur before or after other events.
Now there are "laboratory" circumstances for which we can say, some events will literally occur before or after other events. But this is ONLY because we have placed the events in such a way relative to our frame of reference, that their "literal" occurrence is congruent to their "observed" (by us) occurrence. But I'll let that go for now.
