By Schubert Ogden
Metaphysics concerns itself with:
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". . . [the] universally common element [sc. of all actualities an and possibilities] which by definition would be necessary."
". . . the ultimate invariant, in the sense of the common factor, of reality, present throughout all changes, past or to be anticipated. It is, however, rather an infinite flexibility than a rigid inflexibility. It is really an infinite creative and cognitive power and comprises an unimaginably vast range of possibilities ... It forbids nothing and is the alternative to nothing, save nonsense, or what appears to be something but is not, such as unthinkable confusion or unthinkable monotony."
". . . the necessary content of the something [sc. that must be], in distinction from the contingent entities that may or may not be."
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