The Unreality of Time
J. Ellis McTaggart · 1908 · Mind, 17(68), 457-474
This source is used as challenges evidence across 1 linked claim and 3 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Classic philosophical argument that the ordinary A-series of past, present, and future is contradictory, often used as a starting point for debates over whether time is ultimately real.
How this source is used on the map
Gives the time-exists page a canonical anti-realist anchor rather than treating the question as only a physics issue.
Citation record
- Authors
- J. Ellis McTaggart
- Year
- 1908
- Publication
- Mind, 17(68), 457-474
- Source type
- Journal article
- Map role
- challenges
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- 10.1093/mind/XVII.4.457
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
Related evidence hubs
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Direct treatment of the physics-of-time question — exactly the territory the block-universe claim lives in, without reducing the debate to a slogan.
Explains what each of the time-models actually claims before any physics is brought in.
Useful modern authority for time pages because it connects physics, metaphysics, and experience rather than reducing the question to a slogan.