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Clearly, if that which is "eternally real" will influence all future prehensions by actualities (PCH: 715), then it cannot be true that "the creative process feeds on its own already achieved products and on nothing else" (PCH: 629; italics added). The creative process evidently feeds -- and must feed -- also feeds—and must feed—also on what never was nor could have been an "already achieved product" of the creative process, since it is some necessary aspect or other of this very process -- one process—one of the "defining characteristics" without which there neither would nor could be such a process. As such, it is "eternally real," in no way a temporally produced product of the process.

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