By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of 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 ridu1.ess of definite actuality" (164). (All page references are to "Religious Aspects of Necessity and Contingency.")