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Temporal Reality and History
How A Pluralistic Universe develops Temporal Reality and History.
Defends the reality of time, change, and history against the timeless, static perfection of the Absolute, asserting that genuine events and vicissitudes occur only in a pluralistic world.
Where it surfaces
- Appendix C: On the Notion of Reality as Changing
James critiques a 'scientific' view of history that projects linear trends into the future, arguing that real development is rebellious to such static conceptualization.