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Concrescence is the only reality that is entirely self-explanatory, because it feeds on nothing other than its own products and qualities, i.e., on concretes and the more or less specific abstracts instantiated by them.

As for what is wholly nonconcrete, in that it has never grown together, this is simply the universal common denominator of concrescence as such and whatever it, in turn, implies – namelyimplies—namely, both divine and nondivine levels or forms of concrescence, and thus also concretes.

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The indispensable minimum of what thought is about is concrescence as such, as having the two essential aspects of divine and nondivine concrescence (God in some possible state and some world or other).

Wiki MarkupThought and reality belong in principle together. Thought is about reality, and reality is what is or can be thought about. Not that all thoughts represent actualities, that is, fully actualized possibilities; rather, all thought, not absurd or inconsistent, represents _either_ something necessary, which never was merely future, _or_ something contingent that once was \ [merely\] future, i.e., was a real possibility for subsequent actualization, and also for nonactualization.