ABSTRACT
The denial of reality to time is by no means a startling result for anyone to achieve: it is almost a commonplace in philosophy. J. M. E. McTaggart's remarks on time therefore fall under two headings —first, his proof that time is unreal; and secondly, his explanation of the 'misperception' by which we attribute temporal characteristics to a series that is really non-temporal, and the consequences of that explanation. The second, constructive part is naturally in terms of his own system, and could not be accepted without modification, if at all, by those who rejected his principles. McTaggart said that past, present and future are relations in which events stand to something outside the time-series. He rejects the relations of "more accurate" and "less accurate", "more extensive" and "less extensive", and "more clear" and "less clear", in favour of "included in" and "inclusive of".
