But potentiality itself is here not matter; that is to say, the understanding has no matter, for potentiality pertains to its very substance.
For all that is active seems to be possible, but all that is possible does not seem to energize, so that potentiality seems to be antecedent,” for it is the universal.
Unity, on the other hand, goes forth out of itself through the superfluity of potentiality, and this superabundant potentiality is actuality generally: this reflection of Proclus is quite Aristotelian.
It may be that what has potentiality is not real; it is of no avail therefore to make substances eternal, as the idealists do, if they do not contain a principle which can effect change.
Yea, even if it were active, but its substance only a potentiality, there would be in it no eternal movement, for it is possible that what is according to potentiality may not exist.
Matter consequently always leans towards something else, or is a potentiality for what follows; it is left behind as a feeble and dim image that cannot take shape.
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.
The Potentiality of the Negro Vote, North and West--JOHN L.
In the second place, the effectiveness andpotentiality of the Negro vote in the North and West depends upon an absolute and courageous disregard of traditions.
But if it remain in potentiality only, and its imaging is not perfected, then it disappears and perishes, he says, just as the potentiality of grammar or geometry in a man's mind.
All ingenerables, therefore, he says, are in us in potentiality but not in actuality, like the science of grammar or geometry.
Evidently Simon taught the ancient, immemorial doctrine that the Microcosm Man was the Mirror and Potentiality of the Cosmos, the Macrocosm, as we have already seen above.
For potentiality when it has obtained art becomes the light of generated things, but if it does not do so an absence of art and darkness ensues, exactly as if it had not existed at all; and on the death of the man it perishes with him.
And the Image is the spirit moving above the water, which, if its imaging is not perfected, perishes together with the world, seeing that it remains only in potentiality and does not become in actuality.
It belongs as an accident to beatitude or happiness to be the reward of virtue, so far as anyone attains to beatitude; even as to be the term of generation belongs accidentally to a being, so far as it passes from potentiality to act.
We must therefore decide the question differently, by saying that the teacher causes knowledge in the learner, by reducing him from potentiality to act, as the Philosopher says (Phys.
Now our passive intellect has the same relation to intelligible objects as primary matter has to natural things; for it is in potentiality as regards intelligible objects, just as primary matter is to natural things.
The reason of this is that what is moved locally is not as such in potentiality to anything intrinsic, but only to something extrinsic--that is, to place.
In the second way an angel's intellect can be in potentiality with regard to things learnt by natural knowledge; for he is not always actually considering everything that he knows by natural knowledge.
Nevertheless one body is inferior to another, forasmuch as it is in potentiality to that which the other has in act.
Nevertheless because created things are then called perfect, when from potentiality they are brought into actuality, this word "perfect" signifies whatever is not wanting in actuality, whether this be by way of perfection or not.
This is made clear from the fact, that at first we are only in potentiality to understand, and afterwards we are made to understand actually.
Now the receptive potentiality in the intellectual soul is other than the receptive potentiality of first matter, as appears from the diversity of the things received by each.
Thus it is evident that indistinct knowledge is midway between potentiality and act.
The which through the causes of potentiality and actuality, of possibility and of effect, crucify and console, give the sense of sweetness and also make the bitter to be felt.
For Jean has the potentialityof the master in him as much as that of the slave.
In order to use it effectively, the submersible must be not more than from eight hundred to two thousand yards from its target, and must run submerged at reduced speed, thus greatly lessening its potentiality for destruction.
Because of the potentiality of these hidden warships, thousands of vessels have traversed the ocean, freighted with countless tons of cargoes and millions of men for the Allies.
But modern warfare is of so complex a nature that direct comparisons fail, and only a careful analysis of military experience determines the potentiality of a weapon and its influence on warfare.
We can also form some ideas of His law, and the potentiality of His wisdom and love.
Wrath is no constituent of the divine character; but a potentiality only.
No; but it was a potentialityof the divine character.
We may sink so low as to appear but as dull clods; but the glory of man is the potentiality within him, capable, it would seem, of everlasting development.
And this leads directly to a most important Aristotelian antithesis, that between potentiality and actuality.
Aristotle claims, by means of the antithesis of potentiality and actuality, to have solved the ancient problem of becoming, a riddle, propounded by the Eleatics, which had never ceased to trouble Greek thinkers.
For these absolute terms he substitutes the relative terms potentiality and actuality, which shade off into each other.
All change, all motion, is thus the passage ofpotentiality into actuality, of matter into form.
For when we say that matter is the potentiality of what it is to become, this implies that what it is to become is already present in it ideally and potentially, though not actually.
Potentiality is the same as matter, actuality as form.
Potentiality in his philosophy takes the place of not-being in previous systems.
But in considering the expressiveness of light the deeper play is the medium necessary for utilizing the potentiality of light.
Light has the essential qualifications of painting with the advantages of a greater range of brightness, of greater purity of colors, and the great potentiality of mobility.
Although the potentiality of light has been barely drawn upon, the present usages surpass the most extravagant dreams of civilized beings a half-century ago.
In drawing upon the potentiality of the expressiveness and impressiveness of light and color, artificial light is playing a major part.
This potentiality of light is best realized if lighting is regarded as "painting with light" in a manner analogous to the decorator's painting with pigments, etc.
The bursting rocket, the marvelous effects at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and some of the exhibitions on the theatrical stage are glimpses of the potentiality of light.
Color is demanded in other fields, and, considering its effectiveness and superiority in lighting, it will certainly be demanded in lighting when its potentiality becomes appreciated and readily utilized.
Unappreciated by a public which flocks to the melodramatic movie, whose scenarios produced upon the legitimate stage would be jeered by the same public, the modern stage artist is striving to utilize the potentiality of light.
These advantages of light are very evident on turning to spectacular lighting effects, and even the lighting of interiors illustrates a potentialityin light superior to other media.
Superposing color upon the whole it is obvious that the combination of "primary" light with reflected light possesses much greater potentiality than the latter alone.
The potentiality of lighting effects for the stage has been barely drawn upon, but as the expressiveness of light is more and more utilized on the stage, the art of mobile light will be advanced just so much more.
Very few creatures reproduce after their own kind; they reproduce something which has the potentiality of becoming that which their parents were.
Would he not have denied that it contained any potentiality of consciousness?
The name actuality would better suit the (general) actuality rather (than the actuality of some one thing); the actuality corresponding to the potentialitywhich brings a thing to actuality.
Shall we say that what thus exists potentially is potentiality in respect of what is to be; as, for instance, that the metal is the potentiality of a statue?
If these notions be not intuitions, it is by memory that they become actualized; if they are intuitions, it is by the potentiality which has given them to us on high.
We see them by awaking in ourselves here below the same potentiality which we are to arouse when we are in the intelligible world.
By distinguishing within each of thempotentiality and actualization, Numenius, 25, multiplied them.
Everything else of which we predicatepotentiality passes on to actuality on receiving its form, and remaining the same.
Not so, if we refer to the producing potentiality; for the producing potentiality cannot be said to exist potentially.
The potentiality which is One is one in such a manner that it is multiple when it is contemplated by another principle (Intelligence), because then it is not simultaneously all things in one single thought.
It is the body which undergoes passion; but it is the sense-potentiality of the soul which perceives the passion by its relation with the organs; it is she to which all the sensations ultimately report themselves.
That is, their producing potentiality, and not the potentialityof becoming these things, as thought Aristotle.
The universe is ever all that it can be, and every potentiality which contributes to make it so is within itself.
The life that enables the wheels of a locomotive to go, the sap of a tree to flow, the heart of an animal to beat and the brain of a man to think is the same chemical potentiality differently organized.
Recent discoveries have only increased the wonder and potentiality of the cortex.
The potentiality of Aguinaldo as a personage is not so great as has been imagined, and if he attempts a rally against the American flag he will be found full of weakness.
Johnson said of the vats and barrels of the Thrale estate--"the potentiality of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.
Any stigma attached to women is really a stigma attached to their potentiality as mothers, and we can only remove it by beginning with the emancipation of the actual mother.
This differentiation is our potentiality for motherhood, and is the endowment of every woman, whether realised or not.
In the case of the progressive evolution of a species, the developmental potentiality of B becomes of a higher and higher order.
A species remains unchanged so long as the potentiality of development resident in B remains unaltered; so long, e.
Electricity, Electricity with a low potentialityand large current Voltaic.
From what Fulkerson has told me of Dryfoos, I should say he had always had the potentiality of better things in him than he has ever been yet; and perhaps the time has come for the good to have its chance.
The potentialityof the gods always overshadowed their personality.
But there was an old goddess Libera, a shadowy potentialitycontrasted and paired with the masculine Liber, and they chose her and gave Kore her name.
