[MD] Royce's Evolutionary Insight

[mark_maxwell at talktalk.net]

squonk: I'll restate this:



1. Royce's Absolute Monism exists prior to differentiated notions of it.



I cannot support your assertion #1 from my reading of Royce. Where I'm at

now it seems that his absolute monism arises from differentiated notions of

it.



Squonk: soz about the Joyce thing. Late night, all that…

I took it to mean that Royce had discovered the Monism through logical argument, but I then assumed that once discovered it could be further argued that the Monism was already there to be revealed. This is it’s a priori status.



2. Differentiated notions of it are imperfect.



relatively, but not ultimately or absolutely



3. Differentiated notions are becoming more perfec
 t in an evolutionary process.



agree.

　

4. If this process continues then differentiation itself may cease with the process itself (maybe not).



maybe. maybe not. correct.



Thanks John,

More to think about…

squonk