Thesaurus / potentiality
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Everything was to some degree potentiality, until it got channeled in a specific direction by circumstance and the rule-scape into which one was born.
GENDER IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCHARLES KINGAUGUST 5, 2020NAUTILUS
This action provided Virginians with knowledge of the type of terrain and its potentiality along this important borderline.
HALLOWED HERITAGE: THE LIFE OF VIRGINIADOROTHY M. TORPEY
The determination of what is suitable to a being belongs to the superior Being of whom the lower being is a potentiality.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
Now, having the potentiality of producing, it produced within itself; its actualization was "being," and it was united thereto.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
Besides, even if actualization be contemporaneous with potentiality, why should not the first rank be assigned to actualization?
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
Or, if it be insisted that actualization and potentiality must be simultaneous, both principles will be found depending on chance.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
So Essence also does not remain unitary, because its potentiality extends to all it has become.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
In its potentiality it contains all things as essences, in the same manner as Intelligence does.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)
Potentiality and actuality are correlative terms corresponding to matter and form.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
This potentiality and indeterminateness is matter, but it is not to be confused with the other matter of the phenomenal world.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
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