By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
"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 productsf'; "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