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Concrescence
It was Whitehead who was the first to show
How all actualities come and go
In bursts first of presence, then of absence,
In fast fleeting moments of concrescence.
Note:
Thus the ‘production of novel togetherness’ is the ultimate notion embodied in the term ‘concrescence.’ These ultimate notions of ‘production of novelty’ and of ‘concrete togetherness’ are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition. —Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, pages 21-22.