keannu
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1. This "If I saw a dog attack and panicked as a child" seems to denote a predictive conditional, where you are not sure if something happened or not in the past.right? Or is it a factual conditional that denotes a real fact? This has the "same form of counterfactual conditional about the present. I think "I" here means a general person, as normally it's impossible not to remember my experience, right?
2.Does ths "will not have" mean a present state or a future one?
st108)If I saw a dog attack and panicked as a child, I might become edgy around dogs when I see them at different times in my life. My brother may have been elsewhere so he didn't experience the fear assciated with what I saw. He may not have seen it at all. My brother will not have the same response to dogs in his life as I do, because he has no experience associated with fear and dogs. Most of our beliefs are formed early in life when we have little or no reasoning. This is why we have difficulty as adults, because we don't know where the fear or uneasiness comes from. We may have blocked out the memory that caused us stress or emotional pain.
2.Does ths "will not have" mean a present state or a future one?
st108)If I saw a dog attack and panicked as a child, I might become edgy around dogs when I see them at different times in my life. My brother may have been elsewhere so he didn't experience the fear assciated with what I saw. He may not have seen it at all. My brother will not have the same response to dogs in his life as I do, because he has no experience associated with fear and dogs. Most of our beliefs are formed early in life when we have little or no reasoning. This is why we have difficulty as adults, because we don't know where the fear or uneasiness comes from. We may have blocked out the memory that caused us stress or emotional pain.
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