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nature
nature In historical philosophical usage, nature can mean what belongs to a thing from the start—its native constitution, essential character, or the source of its way of acting.
In historical philosophical usage, nature can mean what belongs to a thing from the start—its native constitution, essential character, or the source of its way of acting. It can also mean the world as a whole, either viewed as an active producing power or simply as the total physical order of things and events. Because of these different uses, the term has long been notably broad and ambiguous.