By Schubert Ogden
The necessary, including "the abstract, impossibly unexemplified essence of deity" is:
"the neutral common element of all possible alternative states of reality" (148);
"the empty featureless invariant in all possible variations" (148);
"that to know which is to know next to nothing" (164);
"the outline for which all that is concretely real provides unimaginable richness of definite actuality" (164).
(All page references are to "Religious Aspects of Necessity and Contingency.")