Although arguably a relatively minor work in itself, this volume of essayistic aphorisms and/or aphoristic notes by John O'Loughlin is nevertheless significant inasmuch as it signifies his first real attempt to approach and develop Truth, or metaphysical knowledge, from a consistently aphoristic, not to say, ideological angle, and may be regarded as a harbinger of those so-called 'supernotational' projects which, with a certain aphoristic flair, were to preoccupy him during the years 1985-93. Divided into two parts, both of which are largely concerned with evaluating and re-evaluating various philosophical positions either already taken or common to his work in general, it paved the way for the systematic evaluating and re-evaluating or, as he prefers to term it, 'revaluating' which was to become so characteristic of his work from the mid-80s, and to prove of such significance in his ability to develop and summarize Truth. The principal theme and concern of 'Evaluations and Revaluations' is Social Transcendentalism and its relationship to what he terms 'the Centre' - a politico-religious concept which the ideology in question would democratically advance at the expense of traditional state/church relativity in what amounts to a kind of church-biased synthesis.