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 set of ideal forms. In the most literal sense the lapse of time is the renovation of the world with ideas. A great philosopher has said that time is the mind of space. In respect to one particular new birth of one centre of experience, this novelty of ideal forms will be called the “consequent.” Thus we are now considering the particular relevance of the consequent to the particular ground supplied by one antecedent occasion.

The derivate includes the fusion of the particular ground with the consequent, so far as the consequent is graded by its relevance to that ground.

In this fusion of ground with consequent, the creative process brings together something which is actual and something which, at its entry into that process, is not actual. The process is the achievement of actuality by the ideal consequent, in virtue of its union with the actual ground. In the phrase of Aristotle, the process is the fusion of being with not-being.