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A comprehensive model adding dimensions of time and necessity. Axis 1: Materialism-Idealism. Axis 2: Monism-Pluralism. Axis 3: Realism-Antirealism. Axis 4: Atomism-Holism. Axis 5: Eternal-Temporal (reality is timeless vs. fundamentally temporal/process). Axis 6: Necessary-Contingent (reality must be this way vs. could have been otherwise). These six axes generate sixty-four metaphysical positions. Process philosophy is often idealist or neutral, pluralist (many processes), realist, holist (processes are wholes), temporal, contingent. Classical theism is idealist, monist (one God), realist, holist, eternal, necessary (God couldn't not exist). The 6 Axes reveal that debates about time and necessity are inseparable from debates about substance and structure.
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