ABSTRACT
For being defined solely in terms of phenomenal time, the overlapping of sensations, natural law and inter-subjective causation, it seems to be something which, with a suitable ultimate reality, could obtain independently of the physical world and provide an appropriate framework for the constraints. And more importantly, it means that we can retain a time-dimension in the external component – that component of ultimate reality which lies outside human minds and by which, apart from the influence of human volition itself, the constraints on human experience are imposed. A topic-neutral theory comes as close as we can get, without embracing mentalistic realism, to George Berkeley’s final position – the position he endorses in the Three Dialogues. It is, in effect, what this position would become if the phenomenalism of the Principles were retained and the physical world not identified with God’s archetypal image.
