ABSTRACT

The general implications of thought, we allowed that truths might be supposed to mean merely what is generally believed, or what serves as a working hypothesis. In view of what has since been urged with reference to objective order, we may now insist more definitely on the objectivity of truth. The Meaning of Reality is a somewhat ambiguous term. There are a number of senses in which it may be understood, but it will perhaps be classified into the true, the existent, the perfect and the absolute or eternal. Whatever is implied in the general structure of reality may be said to be necessary and whatever is definitely excluded by that structure may be said to be impossible. What is neither definitely implied nor excluded would seem to be possible. It may be that everything is either implied or excluded. If so, we could only speak of the possible from some limited point of view.