ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the objections. The first objection to emerge against McTaggart's argument is that he mistakenly treats tense as objective, whereas it is in fact subjective and hence perspectival or relational. The two objections are different because the first justifies the perspectivalism of tense on the basis of an assumption about the true ontology of time, whereas the latter justifies it on the basis of an idea about the context dependence of human judgement but leaves it open which ontology of time is true. The problem with the first version of this objection that tense is subjective because time is objectively speaking tense less is that it admits that the A series is ultimately unreal. Broad's and Oaklander's divergence of opinion illustrates quite clearly the fundamental difference between the A and B views with respect to the connection between time and existence.
