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So far as I can see, the point that Hartshorne makes in all this is, again, the same as Whitehead's in characterizing "the defect of the Greek analysis of generation," i.e., that it conceived generation as "the bare incoming of novel abstract form" (AI: 242). I say "again" because of other statements Hartshorne makes in similar contexts – such as, e.g., "Subjects are what they are not through mere private predicates or properties, but through the references which it is their natures to make to certain other subjects" ("Religion in Process Philosophy": 247); also along the same lines, I take it, is what he says about Firstness not being an "actual feeling," which is "relative to a given which, by sympathetic suggestion, imparts quality to it. Only the quality itself, in abstraction from what imparts it or receives it, is self-sufficient or