> Without a specific reference point, any point in time is just a point in time and exists in all three states at once This is like saying that without a refer

> Without a specific reference point, any point in time is just a point in time and exists in all three states at once This is like saying that without a reference point any point in space is simultaneously left, right, in front, behind, above, and below. It's incoherent; all these words necessarily must be expressed in relation to a reference point. McTaggart's argument commits a sort of linguistic fallacy in thinking that you could possibly talk about "past", "present", and "future" without a point of reference.