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Wiki Markup"... the individuality of God is conceivable as a \ [_sic_\] pure determinable, which, like all pure determinables, by the Aristotelian principle (implied by the extensional assumptions of modern logic?) must be particularized and concretized somehow" (_AD_: 57).

Wiki Markup"... the necessary aspect of deity is simply the \ [_sic_\] ultimate determinable as bound to be embodied in some concrete determinate form" (_AD_:·58).

That "the individuality of God" or "the necessary aspect of deity" (which are presumably two ways of referring to one and the same thing) refer to a pure determinable, i.e., one pure determinable among others, is easier to understand than that they refer to the ultimate determinable. Granted that "creativity in its essential or irreducible aspect . . . is inseparable from the necessary aspect of deity" (AD: 43), still, the idea of creativity is distinct from the idea of God. This is confirmed by the fact that, as Hartshorne allows, the generalized idea of reality is one thing, the universal quantification of this idea to yield the idea of God, something else (AD: 44 f.).

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