Talk:The Unreality of Time

Importance

It is a paper of some importance, setting up the A, B and C series that are referred to throughout the philosophy of time. See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/ or do a philosophy of time unit at college.

Structure of argument and more

The article says McTaggart starts challenging the B series. Not so. McTaggart starts with the A series in his seminal essay. The article also has heavy quoting where I think rephrasing with footnotes would be easier on the reader. To that end, much of the article appears disjointed and might be confusing for the reader.Jordan 18:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanotto (talk • contribs)

Objections?

Does anyone think that there should be a section of criticism? Obviously not everyone accepts Mctaggart's arguments against either the A or B series. B-theorists have come up with alternative methods for explaining change while others have rejected the contradiction as being fallacious. In some case, they would even accept that Mctaggart fails wholly on both arguments ( I have heard from a few). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.246.112 (talk) 19:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I'd like to see a criticism section.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-philosophy-supplements/article/abs/mc-taggart-and-the-truth-about-time/44425D4301E18ADF2F229F0F8B12F27B — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.8.23.174 (talk) 12:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Incomplete

At no point in this article does it actually explain what is meant by the unreality of time. Can someone add, "By 'unreality', McTaggart means..." To me this is a significant error, because I went to this article to understand this aspect exactly, as it is not evident in his paper. Can someone fix this, please? Centroyd (talk) 02:35, 16 July 2023 (UTC)