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 :::You are a little unspecific. What is ""encyclopedic or definitional"" and whatever it is can it work on a philosophical subject as primary as nature? (I am tempted to imagine that you just mean that fancier and more roundabout words should be used.) Wouldn't a more constructive approach be to show me what you mean rather than just deleting what I wrote? If you have no better way to write it, and you have ""no objection"" then please tell me precisely what is wrong with the sentence you deleted so that I can try to improve it. Is the problem the ""so to speak""? "