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On "Ultimate Reality" 

1. Hitherto I have distinguished between "reality" as "what we in some way find ourselves obliged to take account of" (William James) and "ultimate reality" as "what we are all finally obliged to take account of insofar as we exist humanly at all, whatever other things we mayor may not have to take account of in each leading our individual life." I have also further distinguished "strictly ultimate reality" as "what not only human existence but any existence whatever would be obliged to take account of, whatever other things it might or might not have to take account of."

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3. There is nothing to be done, then, but either to abandon the distinction between "reality" and "ultimate reality" (as well as "strictly ultimate reality") or else to redefine it, so that James's definition applies to "ultimate reality;' ," while "reality" is taken to include the merely apparent, the fictional, and so on.

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