General

• Nominal:
  All matter in the world and the forces and process which effect change. The inherent qualities and characteristics of a person, place, or thing.
• Essential:
  That aspect of reality which pertains to manifested phenomena and the forces that effect change therein.
• Properties:
  All physical and manifest things, along with the forces that influence them and ephemeral products they produce (i.e. thought and emotion).
• Accidentals:
  No real accidental characteristics, the terms is a top level category so would be too broad to describe. Sometimes paradoxes and occurrences that can be relegated to the supernatural have causes which may be obscured by human ignorance.
• Efficient Cause:
  Nature is the universe, or world in which all things can be born.
• Final Cause:
  Nature is the sum of physical existence.
• Material Cause:
  Nature is the general category of all material and manifest things, and the laws which govern them.
• Effects:
  Nature provides the context for existence.