On 7/28/2012 4:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
John Ellis McTaggart
The Unreality of Time
Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17 (1908): 456-473
I have learned about the McTaggart's A- and B-series from John Yates.
http://www.ifsgoa.com/
Now I have found the original paper by McTaggart in Internet:
http://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html
In the paper, the author proves that time is unreal. He first
introduces the A-series that contain past, present, and future and
then shows that this idea is self-contradictory.
I should say that the paper is popular nowadays as well, Google
Scholar shows about 700 citations.
The paper is relatively short (about 8500 words) and it is nice. I
like it.
Evgenii
Dear Evgenii,
Never would I cast aspersions upon McTaggart, but what he actually
proved was not the "unreality of time"; for Reality is what which is
incontrovertible to all intercommunicating observers. What McTaggart
proved was the non-existance of an observational stance that might allow
all moments of time to be apprehended simultaneously. His work can be
seen as a reiteration of the truth that Einstein was able to show us
with his General theory of Relativity.
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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