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acts 9
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actuality 80
actuality-and 1
actuality-e 1
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83 general
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81 might
80 actuality
80 cases
79 accidental
79 attributes
Aristotle
Metaphysics

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actuality

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1 VIII, 2 | substance, in the sense of actuality, of sensible things. Democritus 2 VIII, 2 | predicated of the matter is the actuality itself, in all other definitions 3 VIII, 2 | what most resembles full actuality. E.g. if we had to define 4 VIII, 2 | cases.~Obviously, then, the actuality or the formula is different 5 VIII, 2 | of the sort, speak of the actuality. Those who combine both 6 VIII, 2 | an account of the form or actuality, while that which gives 7 VIII, 2 | absence of motion is the actuality and substance. What is a 8 VIII, 2 | substratum is the sea, and the actuality or shape is smoothness. 9 VIII, 2 | matter, another as form or actuality, while the third kind is 10 VIII, 3 | composite substance, or the actuality or form, e.g. whether "house" 11 VIII, 3 | thus and thus", or for the actuality or form, "a covering", and 12 VIII, 3 | soul is the substance or actuality of some body. "Animal" might 13 VIII, 3 | attaches to the form and the actuality. For "soul" and "to be soul" 14 VIII, 6 | matter as well as one of actuality; e.g. the circle is "a plane 15 VIII, 6 | movement from potency into actuality. And all things which have 16 IX, 1 | purpose. For potency and actuality extend beyond the cases 17 IX, 1 | shall in our discussions of actualityexplain the other kinds 18 IX, 3 | that evidently potency and actuality are different (but these 19 IX, 3 | these views make potency and actuality the same, and so it is no 20 IX, 3 | impossible in its having the actuality of that of which it is said 21 IX, 3 | coming to be.~The word "actuality", which we connect with " 22 IX, 3 | movements to other things; for actuality in the strict sense is thought 23 IX, 6 | and what kind of thing, actuality is. For in the course of 24 IX, 6 | these previous senses also. Actuality, then, is the existence 25 IX, 6 | up to the unwrought. Let actuality be defined by one member 26 IX, 6 | process, then, I call an actuality, and the former a movement.~ 27 IX, 8 | prior", it is clear that actuality is prior to potency. And 28 IX, 8 | all such potency, then, actuality is prior both in formula 29 IX, 8 | then, it is clear that actuality is in this sense also, viz. 30 IX, 8 | sake of the end), and the actuality is the end, and it is for 31 IX, 8 | action is the end, and the actuality is the action. And so even 32 IX, 8 | action. And so even the word "actuality" is derived from "action", 33 IX, 8 | apart from the exercise, the actuality is in the thing that is 34 IX, 8 | no product apart from the actuality, the actuality is present 35 IX, 8 | from the actuality, the actuality is present in the agents, 36 IX, 8 | the substance or form is actuality. According to this argument, 37 IX, 8 | then, it is obvious that actuality is prior in substantial 38 IX, 8 | and as we have said, one actuality always precedes another 39 IX, 8 | in time right back to the actuality of the eternal prime mover.~ 40 IX, 8 | eternal prime mover.~But (b) actuality is prior in a stricter sense 41 IX, 8 | matter and potency, not actuality, that causes this.~Imperishable 42 IX, 8 | these.~Obviously, then, actuality is prior both to potency 43 IX, 9 | 9~That the actuality is also better and more 44 IX, 9 | both alike, or neither; the actuality, then, is better. Also in 45 IX, 9 | of bad things the end or actuality must be worse than the potency; 46 IX, 9 | discovered by being brought to actuality; the reason is that the 47 IX, 9 | geometer’s thinking is an actuality; so that the potency proceeds 48 IX, 9 | potency proceeds from an actuality; and therefore it is by 49 IX, 9 | them (though the single actuality is later in generation than 50 IX, 10 | reference to the potency or actuality of these or their non-potency 51 XI, 2 | however, does not exist in actuality, but exists in potency. 52 XI, 9 | completely real, I call the actuality of the potential as such, 53 XI, 9 | buildable qua buildable; and the actuality of the buildable qua buildable 54 XI, 9 | buildable is building. For the actuality is either this-the act of 55 XI, 9 | what is being built. The actuality, then, must be the act of 56 XI, 9 | of things or with their actuality; for neither that which 57 XI, 9 | movement is thought to be an actuality, but incomplete; the reason 58 XI, 9 | that the potential, whose actuality it is, is incomplete. And 59 XI, 9 | potency or under absolute actuality, but evidently none of these 60 XI, 9 | must be what we said-both actuality and the actuality we have 61 XI, 9 | said-both actuality and the actuality we have described-which 62 XI, 9 | causing movement. And the actuality of that which is capable 63 XI, 9 | capable of acting, so that the actuality of both is one, just as 64 XII, 2 | must have come to be in actuality which the matter was in 65 XII, 5 | things are principles, i.e. actuality and potency; but these also 66 XII, 5 | But the distinction of actuality and potentiality applies 67 XII, 5 | this" which is proximate in actuality, and another which is proximate 68 XII, 6 | principle, whose very essence is actuality. Further, then, these substances 69 XII, 6 | Therefore they must be actuality.~Yet there is a difficulty; 70 XII, 6 | suppose potency prior to actuality, then, is in a sense right, 71 XII, 6 | specified these senses. That actuality is prior is testified by 72 XII, 6 | Anaxagoras (for his "reason" is actuality) and by Empedocles in his 73 XII, 6 | obeying some other law), since actuality is prior to potency. If, 74 XII, 7 | eternal, substance, and actuality. And the object of desire 75 XII, 7 | it is. Therefore if its actuality is the primary form of spatial 76 XII, 7 | we cannot be), since its actuality is also pleasure. (And for 77 XII, 7 | belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and 78 XII, 7 | is life, and God is that actuality; and God’s self-dependent 79 XII, 7 | and God’s self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal. 80 XIII, 10| and indefinite; but the actuality, being definite, deals with


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