By Schubert Ogden
Isn't there a connection between Hägerstrom's description of metaphysics as the view "which makes of reality as such – reality itself – something real" and Whitehead's statement that "[i]n all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents," although in some monistic philosophies "the ultimate is illegitimately allowed a final 'eminent' reality, beyond that ascribed to any of its accidents" (Nygren: 46; PRc: 7)?
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