This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
See pp. 23-4.
This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
See pp. 22-3. "In the order of explanation, the ultimate reality is the one being by which, if we understand it, we understand everything else. This is because, in the order of being, the ultimate reality is the one being that everything else depends upon for its existence."
This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
See page 23. That which everything depends on must be permanent in change. Otherwise it would not be present for things to depend on.
This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
See pp. 25-6. Although Anaximander may not have realized the full implications of his thought, he identified the ultimate reality with the "apeiron" or infinite.
This characteristic is NOT implied in the definition of ultimate reality:
On the contrary, as philosophers after the Milesians realized, the limited nature of matter precludes it from being the ultimate reality.