re: Further From The Truth? page 2
We are surrounded by our civilization, hardly recognizing to what extent that is the case. It's everyone's conviction that things have been pretty much as they are now, allowing only perhaps for very minor variations. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are living at this moment somewhere along the life span of a civilization, which will some day decline and die, to be replaced by another in which all that we believed and accomplished will seem strange and and old-fashioned.
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I'm not sure I really understand what the author is trying to say by 'Nothing could be further from the truth' here. Can you help me?
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I'm not sure I really understand what the author is trying to say by 'Nothing could be further from the truth' here. Can you help me?
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Comments (Page 2)
Truth: at zero distance from reality
let's say you're moving at 1, 2, 3, 4 (miles, kms) ... going away from it
you're going into the domain of lies
the further you go.
----------- MH said: so I was confused.
try this.
Jim is not far from the shop. (Jim is close to the shop).
Jim is not further from the shop. (Perhaps there was an argument with Fred who thinks he lives closer to the shop than Jim, but someone disagrees. Jim is not further from the shop (than Fred)).
Jim could not be further from the shop. (Jim is a very long way away from the shop, in fact, he couldn't get further away if he tried. He must be on the other side of the world!).
but in 'is not --er' vs 'could not be --er'...