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Single Idea 15200

[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change]

Full Idea

McTaggart objects, to Russell 1903, that change cannot consist of a conjunction of changeless facts.

Gist of Idea

How could change consist of a conjunction of changeless facts?

Source

report of J.M.E. McTaggart (The Nature of Existence vol.2 [1927]) by Robin Le Poidevin - Past, Present and Future of Debate about Tense 1 (b)

Book Reference

'Questions of Time and Tense', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [OUP 2002], p.16


A Reaction

I agree with McTaggart. Logicians like to model processes with domains of timeless entities, but it just won't do.

Related Idea

Idea 14168 Occupying a place and change are prior to motion, so motion is just occupying places at continuous times [Russell]