Sentence examples for purely potential from inspiring English sources

The potential intellect itself remains unaffected by this metamorphosis, however, and remains purely potential, able to receive additional intelligible ideas objectively.

These intelligible ideas are not abstracted from the imagination, as Aristotle would have it, but come from the universal Agent Intellect, transforming the purely potential and passive intellect into an acquired intellect ('aql mustafâd).[38] This is an active state of cognition, when the intellect is actively conjoined to its intelligible object.

The active intellect makes the possible intellect move from a state of purely potential intellection to a state of actual intellection (given by the presence in it of the intelligible species) — a state which the phantasm would not, on its own, be able to bring about in the possible intellect (cf. fol. 11vb).

While the city of Moscow treats drug users purely as potential criminals, St . Petersburgis different.

If a pro team wants to pay my son based purely on potential, good for him (and for me; he's expressed interest in a sportier family car).

The indenter was modeled by a purely repulsive potential with the form [27, 28]: (28]

It is entitled Synthetic Biology: Metaphors, Worldviews, Ethics and Law (Boldt, 2016a) and aims to assess social, ethical, and philosophical perspectives on synthetic biology beyond purely assessing potential risks and benefits of its applications.

For example, we find in [6, 14] that the electrons are considered as classical particles moving according to the first Newton law ( d v ⃗ / dt = - m e - 1 ∇ ⃗.V ( r ) Open image in new window, where m e is the rest mass of the electron), and the interaction between the electron and the continuous background is taken as purely Coulomb potential as well as between the electrons themselves.

Last year, according to American government officials, Angola's rulers spent about half of a $900 million windfall in oil earnings on weapons, many of which were purchased purely for kickback potential.

"What's worrying is we seem to have moved away from a clear ideological divide to an apolitical calculation as to who should be censored, because of a wider judgment based purely on the potential to upset and offend," says Tom Slater, assistant editor at Spiked and co-ordinator of the project.

Colleges benefit tremendously from keeping the best players in apprenticeship for two years; the N.B.A., in turn, gets marketable commodities who've spent more time in the college star-making machinery, as well as proven players who aren't being drafted purely on their potential.