Sentence examples similar to element of actuality from inspiring English sources

Of matter some is intelligible, some perceptible, and in a formula there is always an element of matter as well as one of actuality; e.g. the circle is 'a plane figure'.

We granted certiorari to resolve the disagreement among state and federal courts on the question whether retrial is barred when a trial court grants an acquittal be- cause the prosecution had failed to prove an "element" of the offense that, in actuality, it did not have to prove. 3 567 U. S. ___ (2012).

For we know that something actually exists and knowledge of actuality preclude all rival epistemic possibilities.

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.

That those large stereotypical closed-circuit cameras marked by equally large warning sights watching an intersection are in actuality merely just one element of a series of layered observation devices, including countless concealed and covert monitoring systems.

In both respects Méliès dethroned the Lumières' cinema of actuality.

But the spark of actuality is far more captivating than anything we can imagine.

Consider, for instance the notion of actuality.

Lewis's view on actuality is known as the indexical theory of actuality (Lewis 1970).

This is his so-called theory of actuality (Aktualitätstheorie) (1911a: 1911a

It is a special kind of actuality, the actuality of the potential in so far as it is potential (Physics 3.2, 201a27 29).