Timeline for "He doesn't know what he is going to find." VS "He never knows what he is going to find."
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| yesterday | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | You never know expresses a weaker claim then You can never have any idea. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | No. The expression one never knows means exactly what its constituent words would suggest, that one can never be certain. I might well guess that our son will bring a bottle of wine—since he often does—but he does enjoy surprising us. So I never know what he will bring. | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Paul Tanenbaum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | Yunus | Does "to know" in this sentence mean something like "to guess". "He never guesses what he is going to find?" Or maybe "He can not ever know what is going to find". | |
| yesterday | vote | accept | Yunus | ||
| 2 days ago | history | answered | Paul Tanenbaum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |