Tomorrow (time)

Tomorrow is a temporal construct of the relative future;[1] literally of the day after the current day (today), or figuratively of future periods or times. Tomorrow is usually considered just beyond the present and counter to yesterday. It is important in time perception because it is the first direction the arrow of time takes humans on Earth.

Tomorrow
The date
Tomorrow is between Tuesday, 04 August 2020 and Wednesday, 05 August 2020, subject to local time zone.

Philosophy

The use of terms such as tomorrow, now and future are part an a-series view which is part of the presentism philosophy of time.[2]

Learning and language

For a young child, "tomorrow" is "an undefined, infinite time of the idea that time is just an infinite and arbitrary definition of an yet unidentified of what we like to call time, yet the child slowly learns the meaning of tomorrow." The concept of "tomorrow" is rarely understood by 3-year-old children, but 4-year-olds understand the idea.[3]

gollark: Wait, how do you know about our betting pool?
gollark: Ugh, I MAY be forced to deliberately manipulate GTech™ universal markets such that all the particles you contain will be sold to bees I mildly dislike.
gollark: Which is what I said, yes.
gollark: Oh yes, that's quite cool.
gollark: Did you know? Currently, one of our markets is trading every particle in the universe, and all combinations of particles in the universe, and all possible future particles in the universe, and all possible derivatives of them.

References

  1. Contini-Morava, Ellen; Goldberg, Barbara Sussman; Kirsner, Robert S. (1 January 1995). Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110141221.
  2. Birx, H. James (2009). Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture. SAGE Publications. p. 438. ISBN 9781506319933. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. Folberg, Jay; Milne, Ann; Salem, Peter (2004). Divorce and Family Mediation: Models, Techniques, and Applications. Guilford Press. p. 166. ISBN 9781593850029.


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