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| J.E.M. McTaggart (1866-1925), English idealist metaphysician. His major works include Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (1901), Some Dogmas of Religion (1906), and The Nature of Existence (1921). His fields of specialization were metaphysics, philosophy of time, and idealism.
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| Past, philosophy: the set of events before the point of time an observer sees as his presence. Past can be characterized as the period in which decisions are not possible. A time traveler would experience a section of the past as his present. See also present, future, time, to measure, presentism, actualism, reality, time travel._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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| Benjamin, Walter | Past | Benjamin | |
| Dummett, Michael E. | Past | Dummett | |
| Hume, David | Past | Hume | |
| McTaggart, J.E.M. | Past | McTaggart | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Past | Quine | |
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