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Plato's Atlantis

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Subjunctive World of Atlantis

Atlantis is almost all described in the imperfect tense and in the plural. So it creates this timeless continuum. When it comes to Atlantis, it's all named individuals. We're given all these names,. And they're in the air. And then they did this and then they doing that and then they did that. Now that creates a very different world of analytic and allistic chronology which makes it much easier to identify with than glorious people who just carried on doing it forever.

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