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Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by coldtea on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:43AM (#10902470)
>You have that backwards.

Parent didn't put it in time terms. Just noted that everyone who ever lived, has also died ("A && B", as opposed to "A then B").

>Besides that, all people still currently living have not died.

Yes, though one could say that those people are still "living", not yet in a state having "lived" (past tense), as parent put it.

Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by mejari on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:38PM (#10902887)
I've lived. I'm currently living, but I used to, too.
Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by coldtea on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:33AM (#10908588)
You haven't "lived" (period) until you're dead, and it's settled.

You might have e.g. "lived in London" (if you don't know, so it's a settled thing and a specific period of your life). Or "I've lived in poverty", etc.

But "I've lived", period, without such a qualifier is not that common or useful when one is still alive.

Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by logfromblammo on Friday January 15, 2016 @10:04AM (#10909676)
If you truly want to argue that the verb tense chosen means "Everyone who ever lived [and then died] has died," then the statement becomes a tautology: "Everyone who has died has died."
Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by coldtea on Friday January 15, 2016 @02:22PM (#10911458)
All true equivalency statements are tautologies -- since both sides "resolve" to the same thing. That doesn't mean they are useless.

In this case, though, it's not "Everyone who has died has died", but "To have lived means you're dead".

The same way that "to be a corpse means that you've died". That's not a tautology (it's not "to be a corpse means you're a corpse"), just informs us of a prerequisite for the other thing to happen.

Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by logfromblammo on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:16PM (#10912200)
I think that you lack consensus on the meaning that can be drawn from use of the past tense.

Either way, the statement as given does not support the unstated implication that everyone now living will eventually die.