Is there, exclusively for the phenomenon of life, a proper intermediate concept?
[For all truly holistic material things, such as atoms, crystals, and molecules, and thus also living mega-molecules (organisms), there is homogeneity "qua being" (a molecule is a single and true being in all of its constituent "parts". In the molecule there is heterogeneity, not as to its being constituted of individual, actually existing in it, particles, but as to the several qualities of such a molecule : It is a heterogeneous continuum, a continuum, as such extensively discussed in parts XVe and XVf of the present Series.]