1535. "Nature" in the sense of natura naturans . . .

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"Nature" in the sense of natura naturans may be defined variously as:

"the creative advance";

"the temporal process"; and

"[the] creativity [itself]." 

"Nature" in the sense of natura naturata may be defined variously as:

"its [sc. the temporal process's] actual or conceivable products;

^{"products of the creative advance";}

^{"emergent aspects of reality";}

^{"its [sc. creativity's] manifestations"; and}

^{"what creativity produces."} 

Harshorne speaks variously of:

"the ultimate units of concrete reality";

and "the ultimate values of variables [sc. for individuals]" (AD: 51). 

I speak variously—designating what I take to be the same things—of:

"the ultimate subjects of predication";

"the ultimate subjects of statements that can be true or false";

"the ultimate subjects of discourse" ; and

"the ultimate descripta of descriptions."

11 October 2004