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If Hartshorne is right that "the transcendental is creativity [ = becoming as creative of new actuality = contingent production of additional definiteness = process = spontaneity = determining the antecedently indeterminate but determinable = particularization]," then perhaps I need to transform my treatment of the concept "reality itself (or as such)" into a treatment of the concept of "creativity," or, as I would prefer to say, "concrescence" = the process of many growing together to become one, i.e., concrete. This would mean that, from this one concept, all other transcendental concepts can somehow be derived, for they are all concepts either of instances of it (i.e., concretes) or of aspects of it (i.e., abstracts), God being the unsurpassable instance that unsurpassably instantiates the aspects, the world being comprised of all the surpassable instances that instantiate the aspects only surpassably.

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"[T]he basic form of reality is concrete reality," because "abstract entities are not real simply in themselves, apart from all concrete embodiment – if embodiment—if nothing else, embodiment in some concrete process of thinking." "But, then, slightly paradoxically, the most fundamental abstraction is concreteness as such."

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