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[timelets]

...the creative advance of the world is the becoming, the perishing, and the objective immortalities of those things which jointly constitute stubborn fact.
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

--- A.N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1979, 2nd ed.