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Extraordinary ontological abstracts, both existentials and trilnscendentalstranscendentals, are experienced in the vertical dimension, or existential aspect, of human experience, i.e., experience of the lIitillUlte ultimate reality of onese1f, others, and the whole. And the analogy between oneself, on the one hand, and any other individual, including the universal individual that is the whole, on the other, is illuminating in both directions, our fragmentary experience of each shedding additional light on the other. By contrast, ordinary ontie ontic abstracts (from categories through genera and species to individualities=individual essences) are experienced in the horizontal dimension, or empirical aspect, of our experience, i.e., experience of the immediate reality of oneself and others, although not of the whole, of which, in the nature of the case, there can be no empirical experience.

Concrescence could not not exist and could not not produce particular concretes as products. Thus that there is concrescence as such, with its two essential aspects of divine and nondivine concrescence, is an unconditionally necessary truth-although it is the ollly only such truth. As such, it is inherent in all experience and in all thought about experience that is both clear and coherent. 

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