ABSTRACT

In this inquiry into in-hereness and out-thereness the argument of Chapter 2 was that method is productive of realities rather than merely reflecting them. And that parts of the out-there are made visible while other parts, though necessary, are pushed into invisibility. This was a first stage in the erosion of Euro-American metaphysical certainties. In Chapter 3, in a move that turns singularity into multiplicity, or better into fractionality, I explored the enactment of different realities at different sites. In Chapter 4 I extend the argument by considering a further metaphysical assumption, the idea that what is out-there necessarily has a definite form. I am going to say that there are circumstances where this is not the case: that some relevant realities are indefinite.