But category (v) left «unanswered» how can
unrealized eternal objects can be modified and utilized as well as realized eternal objects?
The ontological principle requires that for anything (including
an unrealized eternal object) to be effective, it must have reference to an actual entity.
So in this case the ontological principle requires an actual entity to prehend
these unrealized eternal objects.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 250) one can answer how
unrealized eternal objects can be effective by referring to God.
Later (in the nonitalicized text, minus the sentence in brackets), when Whitehead has developed the notion of God as unfettered conceptual valuation, he realizes that divine conceptual feelings, since many pertain to
unrealized eternal objects, can not possibly be derived from physical feelings.
Not exact matches
Note also PR 46: «Apart from God,
eternal objects
unrealized in the actual world would be relatively non-existent for the concrescence in question.»)
In the prefatory remarks to the long quotation from Hume about the missing shade of blue, Whitehead calls attention to
eternal objects, «
unrealized in the datum and yet constituent of an «objective lure» by proximity to the datum» (PR 86C +).
Apart from such orderings, there would be a complete disjunction of
eternal objects
unrealized in the temporal world.
Moreover, sensa are declared to have some form of realization that differs from that of patterns: «But the realization of a sensum in its ideal shallowness of intensity, with zero width, does not require any other
eternal object, other than its intrinsic apparatus of individual and relational essence; it can remain just itself, with its
unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176).
On the divine non-temporal actual entity as ground for the relevance of
eternal objects Whitehead contends that «if there be a relevance of what in the temporal world is
unrealized, the relevance must express a fact of togetherness in the formal constitution of a non-temporal actuality» (Process 32).
Without God, in sum, «there would be a complete disjunction of
eternal objects
unrealized in the temporal world» (40).