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    It is not the case that The A series generates an infinite regress of contradictions rather than resolving the original contradiction

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Any time t possesses incompatible A properties (past, present, future)
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    • 2.To explain how t possesses these incompatible A properties, additional times must be invoked
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    • 3.These additional times must themselves possess all of the same incompatible A properties
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    • 1.McTaggart's original regress shows that A-series defenders must posit a second-order A-series to explain the first, generating the same contradiction at every level.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.A resolution that merely relocates rather than eliminates a contradiction is logically equivalent to no resolution at all, making the regress vicious rather than benign.
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    • 1.Mellor's 'Real Time' demonstrates that every proposed A-series escape route—including token-reflexive, relational, and presentist variants—still requires tensed facts that themselves must be ordered by a further A-series.
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    • 2.A series whose explanatory structure is isomorphic to the structure it was introduced to explain cannot provide foundational grounding, entailing the regress is not merely infinite but explanatorily circular.
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