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. 1866–1925. Cambridge metaphysician, born in London, who developed an idealist (and atheistic) system centring on the notions of substance and the part/whole relation (and also involving human reincarnation). He denied the reality of many things, such as material objects and space, but is now best known for his argument against the reality of time (see SPACE). The Nature of Existence, 1921 (vol.
1), 1927 (vol. 2).
C.D.Broad, An Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy, Cambridge UP, 1933 (vol. 1), 1938 (vol. 2). (Standard commentary.)
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