The Contingent Universality: A New Ontology

There may be such a thing as the most unbearable of all philosophical thoughts: the realization of the absolute contingency of the emergence of universals – and the correlative insight that the only true universality is the contingency of everything.

The entire history of philosophy can be seen as an endeavor to keep universality and contingency apart by setting up frameworks that promise to shield the sovereignty of truth from the fortuity of the current state of things. The Contingent Univ...