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Here, however, he uses "actuality" sufficiently broadly to include both actualized potentialities (or possibilities) and necessity. Thus he can say: "necessity means this double truth: the ultimate identity in the world process is actually [sic] there (for it is an aspect of the process), and further, it is meaningless to think of it as not there, as not actual [sic], for 'there' or 'actual' only means 'in the identical process.' How can the nonbeing of the factor which makes alternatives possible be one of the alternatives? Potentiality, whether of existence or of nonexistence, is the protean character of the ultimate cosmos, and therefore this character has no potentiality of existing or of not existing, but simply exists, without benefit of potentiality, that is, necessarily -- which necessarily—which only means, without possibility of nonexistence" (240 f.).

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