Your answer → <u><em>substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements.</em></u>
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<u>does that help</u>
Well for the first question i’d ask how different things were compared to now
The present and the past are similarly related by the fact that you know what happened. For example you know what’s going to happen to you right now? You mostly do. Do you know what happened in the past? Yes.