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of nature, though it only relates to nature in space and is 

 not itself anywhere in space. Entelechy's role in spatial 

 nature may be formulated both mechanically and energeti- 

 cally. Introspective analysis shows that human reason 

 possesses a special kind of category individuality by the 

 aid of which it is able to understand to its own satisfaction 

 what entelechy is ; the category of individuality thus com- 

 pleting the concept of ideal nature in a positive way. 



This is a detailed analytical definition of the individual 

 living organism. 



