For Xunzi, on the other hand, tian embodied no ethical principle and was simply the name for the functioning activities of the universe (somewhat like our word Nature).
The crux is a mind's surrender to — for want of a more precise word — nature, both external and internal to the artist.
Discursively, this paradigm was accompanied by scientization of nature discourses, which saw the word nature increasingly replaced by the environment and which went hand in hand with a progressive rationalization of natural resource use.
The bride tree blooms late this year, its nature stored at the edge of day — some like to avoid the word "nature" but what to put in its place for ants & thoughts & parking meters, stars & skin & granite, quarks, the world above & below . . .
Some have argued that "sustainability", just like the word "nature" itself, has come to mean very different things, carrying different symbolic meaning for different groups, and reflecting very different interests (Redclift 2004, 220).
In these theories, consequences are extracted from axioms and theorems by rules of inference, "such as the rules of substitution and detachment" (Tarski 1983c, p. 410), of a purely syntactical (or "structural", in Tarski's word) nature.
