Appropriation

I am calling the Formal Principle, the Becoming-the-Same, of the Individual human, 'Appropriation'. Here 'Appropriation' means 'taking possession of', much as is with the common usage, but with some subtle but important differences. In its ordinary sense, it implies a process of internalization that relates two items that are distinct at the outset, and and are still distinct at the completion. e. g. any purchase of an use item. In contrast, in the technical notion, 'something becoming mine' is more accurately 'an indefinite something becoming me', as in fact can be appreciated even in ordinary cases, e. g. the tool that I use becomes no longer just that but an 'extension' of me. Furthermore, the 'me' that has become is a product of the process, as it is in Whitehead's 'Concrescence'. For example, the tree that results from the addition of a new ring did not, strictly speaking, exist prior to that addition, and the ring is part of the tree, not a distinct but related entity. In other words, both the 'subject' and the 'object' of Appropriation are internal phases of the process, which get distinguished as a matter of analytic interest or linguistic convenience. So, in contrast with Exposition, Appropriation is a transition from indeterminacy to determinacy.