AtD, 538 (last three lines)//:: German philosophy

[David Morris]

MCTAGGART . . . HARDY
Seems to refer to a historical logician joke. explanation Professor
McTaggart was, perhaps, the most famous philosopher who argued that
Time did not exist as we seem to experience it. W.H. Hardy was a very
famous Cambridge mathematician who knew all the famous philosophers in
England.

>From AtD Wiki:

John McTaggart Ellis (J. M. E.) McTaggart (1866-1925), British
philosopher. He was born in London and educated at Clifton College,
Bristol and Trinity College, Cambridge. He lectured Philosophy at
Trinity College from 1897 to 1923. His brilliant commentaries and
studies on Hegel's dialectic (1896), cosmology (1901) and logic (1910)
were preliminaries to his own constructive system-building in Nature
of Existence (3 vols., 1921-1927). In his 1908 essay "The Unreality of
Time" he argued that our perception of time is an illusion (Cf page
412: dismissing . . . the existence of Time).



On 8/1/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bertrand Russell was real, of course,
> a friend of the Prof McTaggart (who does not believe in Time) who appears in Against the Day under whose early influence Russell was an "Hegelian", he has written. [Autobiography]
>  McTaggart broke with him after awhile claiming "he could not abide Russell's opinions"...[paraphrase].