Gnomish

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Gnomish is a grammatical definition in ancient Greek . This enabled a general truth to be expressed in the present, future or aorist . The use of these times for the representation or appointment of a fundamental, eternally valid fact according to the content of the ancient motto called gnomes , often formulating a wisdom of life, is called gnomic .

  • A Gnomish present indicates that something actually happened or something is true.
  • The Gnomish future tense (the rarest form of usage) similarly claims that a particular event often occurs without the event itself being imminent.
  • The gnomic aorist is the most common form of use in ancient Greek. General maxims are formulated in the same way as reference is made to events that occur under certain circumstances. It is assumed that the gnomish aorist developed from the summary of a narrative, such as the morality of a story or a fable. Example: Gnothi seauton .

The term "gnomish" is also used less often in German literary studies than in English . The gnomic present tense of a narrator who has an overview of the plot and can know all the characters (authorial, punch), differs entirely according to the definition of the "present tense of a statement of a character occurring in the plot" in that the narrator uses it makes generally valid statements that are absolutely true for the narrative.