# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:46:46.227Z

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name: "J. M. E. McTaggart"
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description: "John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. McTaggart is known for \"The Unreality of Time\" (1908), in which he argues that time is unreal. The work has been widely discussed through the 20th century and into the 21st."
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birthDate: "1866-09-03"
deathDate: "1925-01-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump