Persona Classification Layer
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Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
J. M. E. McTaggart
The unreality of time — the A-series / B-series distinction that founded analytic philosophy of time
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | J. M. E. McTaggart |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Disembodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | N/A |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
J. M. E. McTaggart
Time is ultimately unreal; what we call temporal succession is a confused appearance of the timeless C-series (the inclusion relation among loving spirits).
Space
J. M. E. McTaggart
Emergent appearance; ultimate reality is the community of spiritual substances.
Matter
J. M. E. McTaggart
Emergent appearance.
Observer
J. M. E. McTaggart
Plural immortal spiritual substances in a community of mutual love. Cosmic-ordering: the absolute as the community itself.
Energy
J. M. E. McTaggart
Emergent appearance of the timeless underlying reality.
Information
J. M. E. McTaggart
Personal spiritual substances eternally conserved.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
McTaggart's sharp negative argument against time has been almost universally accepted as a major philosophical contribution; his positive system of communitarian-personalist idealism has been almost universally rejected. Russell, Moore, and the entire analytic tradition that came out of Cambridge took the destructive moment but not the constructive one.