McTaggart argues that the features of being past, present, and future are “incompatible” with each other in the sense that the same thing cannot have all three features. Yet if subjective time was real, then each moment would be future, then present, then past. But since the same thing cannot be all three in this way, the same moment cannot be future, then present, then past. So moments cannot flow from being future, to present, to past. This means time cannot flow; so subjective or flowing time must not be real. Do you see any problems with McTaggart’s argument?
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