These sorts of considerations also incline Aristotle to speak of the priority of actuality over potentiality: potentialities are made actual by actualities, and indeed are always potentialities for some actuality or other.
Outside, a bit stunned by the actuality of it all, the discrepancy between that radiant stone and Dylan's often expressed wish never to be anything but "lost and proud" — and, I must admit, having a few valedictory thoughts of my own — I was buttoning my overcoat against the cold sunlight when I found myself next to a man holding a little girl.
For Averroes, as for his predecessors, the intellectual potentiality of a person, represented by the hylic or material intellect, is brought into actuality by the Agent Intellect.
Statements apparently about possibilities are really statements about actualities: they are about the actual implications and non-implications of various characteristics had by actual entities.
Although he had initially followed the popular trend of the time by making mainly actuality films (short "slice of life" documentary films capturing actual scenes and events for the camera), in his first few years of filming Méliès gradually moved into the far less common genre of fictional narrative films, which he called his scènes composées or "artificially arranged scenes".
Dominance, for example, enables the transition from what-is-possible to its realization (from potentiality to actuality) by the use of power and money and not by irony and listening.
So the only hope for greatness (outside, perhaps, of sport) lies in science, where one would hope that endless discussion must be curtailed by the hard actuality of research and results.
I have been exploring the document for days, feeling as suspended and lost as a diver deep underwater surrounded by the full actuality of this vast ocean environment and unsure if it is possible, even in part, to understand any of it.
The difference in anxiety between women and their partners may be explained by the simple actuality that it is the pregnant woman who is carrying the baby and undergoes any invasive procedure rather than her partner and is therefore likely to have additional anxiety related to the pain and possible complications of that procedure.
Godfrey responds that one and the same being, even if purely spiritual, may be regarded as actual insofar as it exists, but as potential insofar as it falls short of the actuality enjoyed by a higher being and, above all, by the First Being, God.
