 An obvious response to McTaggart’s argument is this: it’s not that some future time is present and past as well, it’s merely that it will be present and will be (later still) past. That is: no time and event has more than one of the A-properties, it is merely the case that they have one A-property and did and will have another. But McTaggart thinks this response does not solve the problem, because it leads to regress. He says (ibid., 469):