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Shouldn't Whitehead's perceptive comment about "the defect of the Greek analysis of generation" -- namely, that it "conceived [generation] in terms of the bare incoming of novel abstract form," and so "failed to grasp the real operation of the antecedent particulars imposing themselves on the novel particular in process of creation" -- be supplemented with a comment about a corresponding defect with respect to the Greek analysis of perishing -- namely, that it conceived perishing in terms of the bare outgoing of novel abstract form, and so failed to grasp the real operation of subsequent particulars creatively appropriating the novel particular whose process of creation has terminated?

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