By Schubert Ogden
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If the most basic or inclusive type of reality is concrete reality, the most basic abstraction is concreteness – as well as, of course, concrescence, _ understood as the creative process whereby concrete reality comes to be, thereby instantiating concreteness and, in a different way, abstractness – i.e., concrescence is the creative process of the many's becoming one and being increased by one.
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