SPECIOUS PRESENT AND THE UNREALITY OF TIME OF J. M. E. MCTAGGART

Abstract

Argumentation by J. E. McTaggart uses among others the concept of "specious present", which describes the phenomenal experience of the present and the recent past. McTaggart argues since an event may be in the past for one, and inside the specious present and, therefore, in the present for another, we get a contradiction that illus-trates the unreality of time. However, since the apparent present can only include the past factualy, this argument cannot be applied.