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That creativity is given and definitely imaginable only as psychical, I readily grant. But I dispute Hartshorne's claim that it "is given and definitely conceivable only as psychical" (10: 36; italics added).
Creativity can perfectly well be definitely conceived as "concrescence/' the process of "growing together" whereby alone there are "concretes" (= things "grown together"), be they singulars (i.e., events or individuals) or aggregates. By this process, in Whitehead's words, "[t]he many become one, and are increased by onetPRc: 21). "Also," Whitehead says, "there are two senses of the one-namely, the sense of the one which is all, and the sense of the one among the many" (MT: 150).
Allowing that "concrescence" and "concretes" imply "concreteness," which in turn implies "abstractness," as the transcendental property common to all "abstracts," ordinary and extraordinary transcendental), one has all the fundamental concepts of metaphysics in the strict sense of the word. Reality as such is creativity = concrescence, and therefore comprises concretes and abstracts (including the transcendental abstracts "concrescence," "concreteness," and "abstractness"), and because, as Whitehead rightly says, "there are two senses of the one," also the divine (= "the one which is all") and the nondivine "the one among the many").
Summer 1996