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-A much overlooked concept in our age of [[tense]]less computers, and an underestimated fourth dimension along which our [[wicked]] game of life plays out.
+{{d|Temporality|/ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti/|n|}}the state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
-For the temporality of things is not apparent on an infinitesimal snapshot represented by any presentation of data. Things which are immutable and things which are liable to change look the same. We assign rights based upon the nature of things, and it matters how permanent those things happen to be. A human’s count of arms and legs us the same — barring catastrophe, and it can hardly ''grow'' — but ones tastes and opinions, however devoutly held, can change. In a fully functioning adult, indeed, they ''should''.
+Time, and temporality, is much overlooked in our [[tense]]less age of [[data]], [[symbol processing]] and [[difference engines]]. It is an underestimated fourth dimension along which our [[wicked]] game of life plays out.
+For a thing’s temporality of things is not apparent on an infinitesimal snapshot represented by any presentation of data. Things which are immutable and things which are liable to change look the same. We assign rights based upon the nature of things, and it matters how permanent those things happen to be. A human’s count of arms and legs us the same — barring catastrophe, and it can hardly ''grow'' — but ones tastes and opinions, however devoutly held, can change. In a fully functioning adult, indeed, they ''should''.
 (The seventy year old man who cleaves to the same politics he did when he was fifteen ''hasn’t learned anything''.)