Teaching English for adults we were reading a story. In the story of a man appears this sentence " He dies when he is 102 years old" An ESL adult asked me: Shouldn't be that sentence in the past,... when he was 102? I said No, it's OK the way it is;but I struggled to give him the reason. Could somebody help?  There are some questions about the use of would with the historical present on this site:       But this question is about why it is possible to use the present simple in this particular example. It does not ask about the use of would with the present simple.  I wasn't born here so English is my second language too!!!
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Is infinite regress of causation possible? Is infinite regress of causation necessary? For a number of reasons &mdash; including perhaps a desire to feel that we have a complete understanding of where we came from, or at least an understanding which is completely sufficient for all of our purposes &mdash; there is a strong tendency to suppose that an infinite regress of causes and effects is impossible. We see this for instance in the . Traditionally in Greco-Roman influenced philosophy, this prime mover has been identified with the notion of a creator god. A more modern formulation comes from the Big Bang theory, which (although we study the question) happened for no reason that we know of; and perhaps occurred for no reason at all. Indeed, if time is a property of the universe, a good argument can be made that .  At the same time, we have gotten a lot of leverage in science from the ideas that everything happens for a reason, i.e.&nbsp;because it is caused by something else. This is sometimes described as the . Aristotle also applies this idea, except that the first mover is made an exception, something which exists literally for no reason. Indeed, the emotionally negative way that "no reason" is used in common speech, as something groundless and irrational, indicates how widespread the feeling is that the idea of uncaused events is deeply dissatisfying.  Almost all of our modes of critical thinking are infused with both of these ideas: that we may work from first principles, a definite starting point, counting up from zero (or one, historically); but also that we may trace the causes of things to some point, and then later ask how that starting point came to be. But the two ideas are themselves in conflict.  Which is true &mdash; that infinite causal chains are impossible? Or that they are necessary? Or are they perhaps possible without being necessary?   Related questions: When, if ever, should voting override answer acceptance for answer sorting? The accepted answer always appears at the top of the list, regardless of sort order. This can be misleading if the question author accepted an invalid solution and a better solution was proposed later, and eventually got more votes. I have seen somewhat obscure questions where the accepted answer has a negative score and the next answer has 10 or more up-votes. Let $f\colon(0,\infty)\to\mathbb R$ be differentiable on $(0,\infty)$ and suppose that $\lim\limits_{x\to\infty} f'(x)=L$.         a. Show that for any $h&gt;0$, $\lim\limits_{x\to\infty} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}h=L$.      b. Show that $\lim\limits_{x\to\infty} \frac{f(x)} {x} =L$.   this is a differentiation question.  i don't know how to solve this question  Because it is Korean, it is difficult to deal with this cite. 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