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    Supports→The A series generates an infinite regress of contradictions rather than resolving the original contradiction

    Broad and Dummett confirmed that no metalinguistic or perspectival restatement escapes this structure, since any higher-order series reintroduces tense and thus inherits the contradiction.

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    Key Terms

    Broad(as a reference to a historical philosopher who critiqued McTaggart)
    Charlie Dunbar Broad was a British philosopher known for analyzing other philosophers' arguments carefully and pointing out problems with their ideas, including McTaggart's theory of time.
    Dummett(philosopher name)
    Michael Dummett was a 20th-century British philosopher who developed arguments against the idea that causes can work backward in time.
    Higher-order series(a logical structure that gets created when trying to restate an idea)
    A chain of statements that talk about other statements, like a ladder where each rung comments on the one below it.
    Metalinguistic(as describing facts about language)
    Having to do with language itself rather than what language describes—it's about the properties of words and sentences, not the world.

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    Perspectival(in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Dependent on a particular point of view or perspective—what's true from one person's viewpoint might look different from another's.
    Restatement(what philosophers try to do to solve problems)
    Saying the same idea again using different words or from a different angle.
    contradiction(Relevant to distinguishing contradictions from false contingent statements in the logic student variant of the preface paradox.)
    A statement that is necessarily false in all interpretations; in this context, specifically the negation of a tautology or any falsehood drawn from a list containing only tautologies and contradictions.
    tense(Prior's view, discussed in The Craft of Formal Logic)
    A species of modality, to be set alongside the ordinary ('alethic') modes of necessity and possibility.

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