The pranks of Lo Scheggia and Il Pilucca, which drove one man into exile, another to the hospital, and a third to his death, had no more actuality than the tricks of clown and pantaloon.
Matter is everywhere subordinated to expression; the writer's interest in actuality is slight; the power or the inclination to think is inferior to the faculty for harmonious construction.
It is sufficient that in an hypothesis I disclaim any cognition of actuality (which is claimed in an opinion given out as probable); more than this I cannot give up.
External purposiveness is a quite different concept from that of internal purposiveness, which is bound up with the possibility of an object irrespective of its actuality being itself a purpose.
It is indispensably necessary for the human Understanding to distinguish between the possibility and the actuality of things.
Elsewhere too we should see art in everything which is made so that a representation of it in its cause must have preceded its actuality (as even in the case of the bees), though the effect could not have been thought by the cause.
The actuality of a highest morally-legislating Author is therefore sufficiently established merely for the practical use of our Reason, without determining anything theoretically as regards its being.
How can good, the good which is highest, find itself, and give utterance and actuality to the power that slumbers within it, except as resisting evil?
The gross actuality of Iowa and Yorkshire ruled by one governing body, he cannot take in.
Another actuality of war relieves us of the danger of being too generous--the actuality of rubber and tin and tungsten and all the other materials critical to production in peace time.
Uncle Sam is a cartoonists' fiction, too often appearing in comic guises, too often used in advertising, no longer corresponding even to the actuality of the American physique.
There was indignation and pride in the words, too much recollection of an actuality to rise from the reminiscences of a dream.
Actuality is always the unity of universality and particularity, and the differentiation of the universal into particular ends.
Returning to actualitywith a slight start, Charles replied, "Admit him--certainly!
Was it true, exactly as Old Tories said, that a woman could not grapple long with actuality without rubbing away that natural sweetness and charm of hers which, it might be, the grim world needed more than duplicate Careers?
The cause of its Reality is thus different from that of its Truth; the addition of the simple Potentiality of Matter has alone given Reality to the pure Actuality of Form.
But I would not swear to it,--nor to anything else of which the actuality is only supported by the testimony of my own eyes and sense of touch.
It is supposed to be the actuality of everyday existence, without any touch of romance or pathos to soften its frequently hideous Commonplace; but the fact is, the Commonplace is not the Real.
For what an actuality had he exchanged his dreams!
All the orderly routine of the great house, all the day's work and the sentiment of it, was subtly influenced by awareness of the actuality of his invisible presence.
It chilled her with suspicion of theactuality of The Four Last Things--death and judgment, heaven and hell.
It laid strong hands on him from out the long past, claiming him, associating itself imperatively with him, asserting, whether he would or no, the actuality and inalienability of its relation to himself.
Beyond this point he compromises to the extent of denying special while admitting collective or social providences; though he is positive in his denial of the actuality or the moral need of a future state.
On Lecky's view, he is to be held as having believed in the fairy magic of the Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tempest, and in the actuality of such episodes as that of the ghost in Macbeth.
Bauer had produced a treatise on Hebrew Mythology, [1781] in which not only was the actuality of myth in Bible narrative insisted on, but the general principle of animism in savage thought was clearly formulated.
Strange as it may seem it is almost all literal reproduction of actuality with only some dates and names altered.
All in me that is spiritual, reasonable, all that was once hopeful, revolts at this actuality and its meaning.
France had not yet become clear to him; he was a stranger in a strange land; in spite of his tremendous interest and excitement, all seemed abstract matters of his feeling, the plague of himself made actuality the substance of dreams.
Answering Plato's charge that poetic is not real, Aristotle erects the distinction between the real and the actual, claiming a reality for poetic which is not the actuality of science or of practical affairs.
Or, as Spingarn explains his meaning, "Poetry has little regard for the actuality of specific event, but aims at the reality of an eternal probability.
To the poet, the dramatic poet above all, locality and actuality of experience are, so to say, merely fortunate coigns of outlook, for the winged genius to temporally inhabit.
Consciousness of time is an experience whose actuality cannot be questioned; by its actuality it will therefore establish the reality of everything that can be proved to be its indispensable condition.
The a priori is thus doubly de facto: first as a condition of brute fact, namely, the actuality of our human consciousness; and secondly, as conditioning a consciousness whose knowledge is limited to appearances.
Also, on Kant's extension of the concepts possibility and actualityto noumena, cf.
Possibility is thought without being given; actuality is given without being thought; necessity is given through being thought.
The cosmological unconditioned is proved to exist by the argument of the thesis, and its existence is at once interpreted as establishing at least in this one case the actuality of free spontaneous causality.
But when Kant adopts this threefold division, the inclusion of actuality renders the general title "modality" inapplicable in its traditional sense.
It would be an injustice to ascribe to us that long-decried empirical idealism which, while it admits the genuine actuality of space, denies the existence of the extended beings in it.
How, despite their seemingly inconsistent and apparently paradoxical aspects, can their validity (their validity as well as their actuality being taken for granted) be rendered comprehensible?
From the experience in view of which they are postulated they receive at once the proof of their actuality and the material for their specification.
He proceeds, however, to give a definition of actuality which entirely omits all reference to the Analogies, and which is open to the same fundamental criticism as his characterisation of possibility in the first Postulate.
Consciousness of time is an experience by whose actuality we can establish the reality of its indispensable conditions.
In this section Kant maintains that when the Critical standpoint is accepted, possibility, actuality and necessity can only be defined in terms of the conditions which render sense-experience possible.
The one-sidedness of Kant's definition of actuality is certainly due to the cause suggested by Caird.
Here for once is actuality, one had said; but only to learn that no actuality bulks so large for the poet himself as the actuality of religious speculation.
He had looked always for something truer, sounder, deeper, than the actuality that enmeshed him.
She had stepped from the dream into the actuality, and out of the actuality she heard Mrs. Timberlake's dry tones remarking that David had not come home from the office.
For, on leaving the tea-table, they had passed from the dream of 'almost England' into the dusty actuality of Jaipur.
The act which embodies and gives actuality to a principle is its best exposition.
He seemed to really enjoy it, and the incipient smile which was habitual to his face blossomed into actuality as he said: 'Guess this here Eve was made out of the rib of a dwarf!
For its acceptance spoke only one forceful plea--evidence which unpleasantly skirted the actuality of demonstration.
Actuality had been dethroned by some dream wizardry and left him free of obligation to reason.
Duns adds further explanations and distinctions regarding the actuality of universals, which are somewhat beyond the comprehension of the modern mind.
Thus the whole man strives to realize the fullest actuality of his being, and satisfy or express the whole of him, and not alone his reason, nor yet his emotions, or his appetites.
Dante's mind was always turning from the obvious sense-actuality of the fact to its symbolism; which held the truer reality.
The first is the absolute incorporeal being, the primal mover, in whom there is no potentiality, but actuality simple and perfect.
Thus the reality of the concept proves the actuality of the Idea.
Knowing is actio, which is the actuality of faculty, as being (esse) is the actuality of substance.
But one may remark that he reaches his views of the actuality of universals through analysis of the processes of thought.
All this clearly is expression, and corresponds, if it is not one and the same, with the passing of energy from potency to the actuality which is its end and consummation.
So our conceptions prove for us the actuality both of the universal and the concrete; and the proof of one and the other is rooted in sense-perception.
