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 · Download Citation | The Unreality of Time | This text is a translation of an article by British idealist J.E. McTaggart “The Unreality of Time” published in the journal Mind in Author Author: John Ellis Mctaggart. McTaggart's basic argument: There can be no time without an A series. An A series cannot exist. ∴ Time cannot exist. Very rough summary: The A series is what McTaggart names the series of positions that run from past, present, and future. The A series cannot exist, he argues, because it would entail /5. McTaggart, aims to show that time is unreal. (The optional reading, from Kant, aims at an analogous conclusion about space.) Here is McTaggart’s statement of his view about time. The most important of his arguments of this sort was his argument that the existence of time itself involves a contradiction.

B-theorists then argue that the A-theory is incoherent, using variants on J.M.E. McTag-gart's argument for the unreality of time (McTaggart , ch. 33). While I am a card-carrying B-theorist, it strikes me that there is something unfair about this procedure. J.M.E. McTaggart first employed the now-standard distinction between the A- an B-series in an attempt to prove the unreality of time. I argue that McTaggart's analysis of time requires that a subject exist within the A-series, and as such lends itself to a Heideggerian conception of time, viewed both through Being and Time and Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle's theory, that necessitates. A Defense of McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time. Michael Dummett - - Philosophical Review 69 (4) The Unreality of Time. John Ellis McTaggart - - Mind 17 (68) Philosophical Studies. John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart - - St. Augustine's Press. Mr. Mctaggart on the "Unreality of Time". V.

McTaggart, aims to show that time is unreal. (The optional reading, from Kant, aims at an analogous conclusion about space.) Here is McTaggart’s statement of his view about time. The most important of his arguments of this sort was his argument that the existence of time itself involves a contradiction. Download Citation | The Unreality of Time | This text is a translation of an article by British idealist J.E. McTaggart “The Unreality of Time” published in the journal Mind in Author. The Unreality of Time John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart. It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind than is involved in the assertion of the unreality of Space.