James goes on to advocate meliorism which lies between optimism and pessimism. For James, it is obvious that pragmatism would be drawn to meliorism. James next asserts that, by acting, we can create the world's salvation. Our actions contribute to the subject and predicate part of reality. Through action, every ideal actual ized will be one moment in the world's salvation.
Man is conceived of as a determining, active entity.
However, Kaufman is distinct from James in that all of reality, including the actions of man, is met aphysically grounded in an ultimate, objective reality. Accordingly, as we have seen for Kaufman, religious claims are grounded as such. I would argue that this deviation first creates a fine distinction between the relativism created by each of their imaginative constructs. Kaufman's construction o f the apparent God, based on the objective, real God, is more of an interpretation relative to James' purely created construction. Though both of their constructions are relative, Kaufman would assert that he is less relative in that his construction is based on an objective reference.