Matter, or actuality in what is only potentially ideal, is therefore a necessary condition for realising an ideal at all.
Representation is far from idle, since it brings to focus those mechanical unities which otherwise would have existed only potentially and at the option of a roving eye.
For my own part, however, I cannot see that in either case the cell, as distinguished from its contained germ-plasm, is thus shown to be potentially immortal.
Hence, also, the unicellular organisms are potentially immortal, while the multicellular have acquired mortality for certain adaptive reasons.
Situations which arepotentially beneficial to the animal attract it in varying degrees according to its internal condition; situations which are potentially disagreeable or injurious repel it with a constancy which is remarkable.
But man is neither first, nor last; he is not the original author of his love, any more than of his reason; he is not the divine principle of the whole to which he belongs, although he is potentially in harmony with it.
Granting the hypothesis of evolution, there can be no quarrel with the view that the crude beginnings of things, matter in its most nebulous state, contains potentially all the rich variety of both natural and spiritual life.
But the unity is not complete, because man is only potentially perfect.
C, m), and though it is formed subsequently to the atrophy of the anterior ciliated band, yet there is evidence that it is potentiallysituated behind this band.
But it would be absurd to want to ascribe to one's personal self the possibilities that are potentially existing in the human unconscious.
They have always been potentially latent in the structure of the brain.
For, according to our definition of the cell, a multinucleated organism potentially is a multicellular organism.
They are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and potentially by gas and oil deposits.
A quick-witted woman exerting her wit is both a foreigner and potentially a criminal.
She would have vowed that it was the sole potentially heroical.
It is an essential condition to just recognition that the new aspirant possess these qualifications absolutely orpotentially to a reasonable extent.
They have neither the individual courage nor the instinct of confederation entitling them to be reckoned among the potentially hostile tribes.
The actually orpotentially hostile tribes of the United States number, on a rough computation suited to the rudeness of the definition, sixty-four thousand.
It will be seen that the number which we have taken for the potentially hostile Indians is many times greater than the number of the actually hostile.
I take this to mean that he is potentially capable of doing something that would either harm the planet itself or a majority--if not all--of the people on it.
Eisberg had been picked as the planet to transfer the potentially dangerous Snookums to for two reasons.
Where they could but wonderingly skirt the fringes of a new world, the moderns have won their way to the heart of things and found many an Eldorado potentiallyricher than that which tempted the cupidity of Cortes and Pizarro.
King Leopold recognised the fact and allowed a certain space of time for British merchants to enter on the possession of what was potentially their natural "sphere of influence.
No work could be of more importance to the world of sufferers than one which would put the use of these potentially beneficent, but, alas!
But there are many believers with whom that which is potentially theirs has not become a matter of real, actual, personal experience.
All men are potentially justified in the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross, that is justification is provided for them and belongs to them (Rom.
There are those who press the fact that every believer potentiallyhas the baptism with the Spirit, to such an extent that they clearly teach that every believer has the baptism with the Spirit as an actual experience.
We must therefore distinguish sharply the transcendental grammar of the intellect, which is significant and potentially correct, from the various transcendental systems of the universe, which are chimeras.
All characteristics of the adult condition are potentiallycontained in the ovum.
More specifically, it is a portion of plastic, organized substance, functioning as an individual and containing potentially an elemental organ plus a formative power.
The statue exists potentially in the marble before it is carved.
Marble then exists potentially in the simple elements before it is marble.
Kant himself admits that it can never be completed, and is only potentially infinite; actually, therefore, by his own admission, it is finite.
After the ovum-cell is fertilised, it constitutes the first cell of the new being; that is, it contains potentially a man.
Consequently, new species are formed potentially in the germinating cells, through spontaneous activity.
Every particle in me is alive; but every particle in me came from Nature; and, as I cannot create life, life must have existed potentially in those particles.
For, as by inexorable law the youngest leaflet in that dell was potentially existent from before all time, could not help but be and sway and flutter in the breeze, so I in my little world.
He felt faintly irritated, annoyed at the way Templin had put it, as if any deviation from an Earth norm was potentially dangerous.
They had expected six months of danger in a potentially criminal culture, and instead it had been paradise.
Grecian Philosophy in the Neo-platonists finds its end in a perfect kingdom of Thought and of bliss, and in a potentially existent world of the ideal, which is yet unreal because the whole only exists in the element of universality.
The subjective Idea is at first only formal, but it is the real possibility of the substantial and of the potentially universal; its end is to realize itself and to identify itself with substance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potentially" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
