giver-side act

In my gift-ontology, giver-side act is a clarifying expression for the divine act considered in itself, apart from creaturely reception. It serves to keep asymmetry clear: what is ultimate cannot be constituted by what is posterior. The giver-side act is fully what it is in se and does not depend on being received by creatures in order to be giving. This blocks feedback-constituted models of divine life and preserves aseity. It also supports the term-side novelty rule. Created reception can be otherwise, can develop, can respond, and can fail, but none of that becomes an internal condition that updates the giver-side act. The giver-side act is immutable, while the gift-terms vary.