We hear that general Sherman is dead.
Sherman has given out land.
We know that know amount of debating or politicking will change their minds in time to avert demographic disaster.
And only afterwards will the meaning of that reply become apparent.
As a result, we now radically misperceive one another, and we have erroneously come to believe that there is no common ground to be found.
Opportunities open to him, which could have been, in which would have been inconceivable before this moment.