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Originally posted by hybrid
You're thinking macrocosmic, I'm thinking micro; if this thread preceeds your next thread, and one was to refer to this thread beforehand, on a microcosmic scale, this thread would be premodern. In the sense that your new thread based off of this thread would be modern at the point of posting.
So there !
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Ah, I see. Yes, I was thinking more generally about postmodern thought, rather than the smaller-scope idea of the later thread being more "modern" because it comes later. In fact, though, begging is an older concept, so this thread, while it comes first, may indeed be more modern.