By Schubert Ogden
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1. By definition, strictly ultimate reality is strictly universal and strictly necessary. As such, it must also be eminently absolute, in the sense of being relative to nothing, neutral to all relational alternatives. Of course, on the Aristotelian principle that universals have to be instantiated somehow, that there is no alternative actualized at all is not one of the relational alternatives. There is and must be some reality, itself not strictly ultimate, in which strictly ultimate reality is instantiated.
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