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But why should this principle of process be affirmed? Aside from the dialectical argument that the alternative principle--that principle—that fixed being is inclusive-has inclusive—has the consequence of denying the reality of process altogether (169), there is the appeal to our direct experience: "[O]ur experience, itself a process, discloses only processes and what can be abstracted therefrom[.] A 'being' which is neither any process nor any datal constituent of process, but something simpliciter more inclusive than all process--this process—this cannot, it seems, have literal meaning, for nothing of the sort appears in experiencing!" (195).

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