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"This category can be condensed into the formula, that in each concrescence whatever is determinable is determined, but that there is always a remainder for the decision of the subject-superject of that concrescence. This subject-superject is the universe in that syntheSissynthesis, and beyond it there is nonentity. This final decision is the reaction of the unity of the whole to its own internal determination. This reaction is the final modification of emotion, appreciation, and purpose. But the decision of the whole arises out of the determination of the parts, so as to be strictly relevant to it" (27 f. \[41 t\]). 

"\[H\]owever far the sphere of efficient causation be pushed in the determination of components of a concrescence-its data, its emotions, its appreciations, its purposes, its phases of subjective aim-beyond the determination of these components there always remains the final reaction of the self-creative unity of the universe. This final reaction completes the selfcreativeself-creative act by putting the decisive stamp of creative emphasis upon the determinations of efficient cause.... \[T\]he final accumulation of all such decisions-the decisions of God's nature and the decisions of all occasions-constitutes that special element in the flux of forms in history, which is 'given' and incapable of rationalization beyond the fact that within it every component which is determinable is internally determined. 

"An instance of concrescence is termed an 'actual entity'--or, equivalently, an 'actual occasion'" (211 \[321 D\]). 

"An actual occasion is nothing but the unity to be ascribed to a particular instance of concrescence. This concrescence is thus nothing else than the 'real internal constitution' of the actual occasion in question. The analysis of the formal constitution of an actual entity \[gives\] three stages in the process of feeling: \(i) the responsive phase, (ii) the supplemental stage _\[sic\!\],_ and (iii) the satisfaction.