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Full Idea
It would be hard to exaggerate the importance of recognising the timelessness of quantification over temporal entities.
Gist of Idea
It is important that the quantification over temporal entities is timeless
Source
Willard Quine (Mr Strawson on Logical Theory [1953], IV)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ways of Paradox and other essays' [Harvard 1976], p.147
A Reaction
'Some moments in this cricket match were crucial'. The domain is not timeless, but consists of moments in this match. Can you say the quantifier is timeless but its domain is not? Only in the sense that 'very' is a timeless word, I think.