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Full Idea
The fact that it is hot at one point in a series and cold at other points cannot give change, if neither of these facts change. If two points on a line have different properties, this doesn't give change.
Gist of Idea
Change is not just having two different qualities at different points in some series
Source
J.M.E. McTaggart (The Nature of Existence vol.2 [1927], 33.315-6), quoted by Theodore Sider - Four Dimensionalism 6.2
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.213
A Reaction
[The second half compresses an example about the Meridian] This objection is aimed at Russell's view, that change is just different properties at different times. I (unlike Sider) am wholly with McTaggart on this one. Change is 'dynamic'.
22628 | Substance has to exist, with no intrinsic qualities or relations [McTaggart] |
15200 | How could change consist of a conjunction of changeless facts? [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
22936 | A-series time positions are contradictory, and yet all events occupy all of them! [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
4231 | Time involves change, only the A-series explains change, but it involves contradictions, so time is unreal [McTaggart, by Lowe] |
22935 | The B-series can be inferred from the A-series, but not the other way round [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
7802 | A-series uses past, present and future; B-series uses 'before' and 'after' [McTaggart, by Girle] |
4230 | A-series expressions place things in time, and their truth varies; B-series is relative, and always true [McTaggart, by Lowe] |
14761 | Change is not just having two different qualities at different points in some series [McTaggart] |
8591 | There could be no time if nothing changed [McTaggart] |
2608 | For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer] |
15199 | The B-series must depend on the A-series, because change must be explained [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |