No one, I am sure, is going to deny its reality, and yet time in the court is eminently irrelevant, immaterial. Whether one is dealing with the individual session or the entire case, the case is determined by the content of the proceedings, not by when they take place or how long they last. An individual session starts when the judge enters and declares that it is open or resumed, and the same session is adjourned when the judge says so. The time elapsed between sessions can be a couple of hours, days, or even weeks or months. What this means is that time is not a factor in the definition of a court case.
Holidays can serve as examples of the same principle.
But the text of the Declaration was not written in one day. It is what happened there, twice, that gave meaning to what happened out on the streets. When these two numbers reach an American ear, they have a meaning that has nothing to do with numbers or dates or time. All this shows that what we perceive as reality is determined as much by the way we perceive it as by the reality itself. In other words, the effective survival, and thus the reality, of an event lies in its being relayed through the word .