ABSTRACT

In view of the previous chapters we are warranted in re-assessing a fashion to reduce the number of transcendent metaphysical entities. This reductionism shrinks what is deemed to be the scope of the real world. The use of ‘real-world solutions’ as a title for this part of the book challenges solutions dismissed by reductionist approaches to metaphysics. The aim here is not to wallow in overinflated reactionary ontologies. Rather, it supposes the reader may be able to question fundamental assumptions whose status needs to be interrogated in the light of the fragility of the fashion that discards them, not least when illuminated by new universal perspectives in cosmology, logic and aesthetics, which have been presented and developed in the foregoing chapters.