Of these the first is: «That the actual world, insofar as it is a community of entities which are settled, actual, and already become, conditions and limits the potentiality for
creativeness beyond itself» (PR 101).
Any world of settled entities imposes upon
the creativeness beyond itself that it participate in coordinated extensive relations.
As Whitehead comments in Process and Reality, «the actual world, insofar as it is a community of entities which are settled, actual, and already become, conditions and limits the potentiality for
creativeness beyond itself (PR 65/101; italics mine).