ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the general nature of reality. For reality one must own and cannot be less than appearance, and that is the one positive result which, one has reached. One was judging phenomena and was condemning them, and throughout he or she proceeded as if self-contradictory could not be real. In rejecting the inconsistent as appearance, one is applying a positive knowledge of ultimate nature of things. Ultimate reality is such that it does not contradict itself; here is an absolute criterion. One makes no attempt to show in general that a psychological growth is in any way hostile to metaphysical validity. The denial of inconsistency, therefore, does not predicate any positive quality. For the objection denies that one have a standard which gives any positive knowledge, any information, complete or incomplete, about the genuine reality. The standard denies inconsistency, and therefore asserts consistency. The character of the real is to possess everything phenomenal in a harmonious form.
