ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the argument for the unreality of time, and not to justify or examine McTaggart's approach to metaphysics in general. On McTaggart's view, the appearance of reality in experience is important because he thinks that experiences provide one form of certain and indubitable knowledge, notably what he calls knowledge by acquaintance' of our own inner states, giving proper homage to Russell. The validity of this knowledge does not extend beyond the content of the experience itself, and it is knowledge of Absolute Reality beyond Present Experience that is McTaggart's goal, and the goal of metaphysics generally. The chapter presents McTaggart's views in the form of postulates and only hint in the most superficial way at the reasons he had for endorsing them. The real question is therefore whether the substances in Absolute Reality form a compound substance characterised by changing relations thereby constituting time.
