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n. - The quality of being no longer current

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  • In other words, all music — regardless of age — is ideally immediate and timeless, and as the technology of reproducing music — regardless of age — improves, the...
  • Condillac's reasoning is less than explicit at this point, but he seems to have taken this experience to provide us with an awareness of what we might call the...
  • There may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of "pastness," especially where immediate memory is concerned.
  • In other words, all music-regardless of age-is ideally immediate and timeless, and as the technology of reproducing music-regardless of age-improves, the "pastness" of...
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