Stative aspect? Perhaps more accurately implicature.Robert Crowe wrote:I think the main force of the subjunctive here is to emphasise stative aspect.
I quote the following from Constantine Campbell, [Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek (2008)]
p.69 'Some common implicatures of imperfective aspect within present subjunctives are activities that are conceptually unfolding, temporally ongoing, stative, or personally characteristic. . . . its imperfective aspect makes the present subjunctive especially suited to proverbial, general, and generic statements.'