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Nature: The totality of all
living things (on earth), or the totality of all
real things.
The term "nature" is ambiguous, and redundant if one means the
same by it as by "reality". But it makes
sense to use the term "nature" to refer to all living things on earth,
on the assumptions that, first, living things are distinct and in some
way more complex than dead things, and second, that it is at least
possible that life of some kind evolved elsewhere in the
universe, and
possibly third, that such life probably is not quite of the same kind as
earthly living things.
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