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The truth of my claim: ‘It is raining’ depends on the time at which I made it. It was true if and only if it was indeed raining (in my vicinity) at that time. Similarly my assertion ‘it has been raining’, made at time t, is true if there was a time t′ preceding t such that it rained at t′.
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Kamp, H. (1979). Events, Instants and Temporal Reference. In: Bäuerle, R., Egli, U., von Stechow, A. (eds) Semantics from Different Points of View. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67458-7_24
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