1535.Nature

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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^{f'; "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). discourse~'; and "the ultimate descripta of descriptions."

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

11 October 2004