Essence can be considered in itself, without actuality, and yet it seems more difficult to conceive of it without its own being, since, from a formal perspective, essence is always its being, and the relation of participation in divine essence that constitutes every essence is eternal and indestructible.
Partly by way of criticizing Plato's theory of Forms, which he regards as inadequate because of its inability to account for change and generation, Aristotle observes that nothing potential can bring itself into actuality without the agency of an actually operative efficient cause.
However, lead-time bias occurs in such a way that the survival of screen-detected cases appears to be lengthened, whereas, in actuality, the screening simply advances the date of the diagnosis, extending the period between diagnosis and death, without actual prolongation of life.
This would enable continuous and area-wide traffic monitoring in metropolitan areas at high actuality without the use of stationary infrastructure.
This requirement implies that whatever can be the mover of these eternal motions needs to be in actuality without any restrictions (Metaphysics 12.6).[40] Moreover, such an entity has to possess an infinite power[41] which it communicates to the moved celestial sphere.
"Yet, real slaves do exist, in actuality, without choice and through true subjugation in many parts of the world, including America.
We just all say the same thing without responding to the actuality of the situation we are in".
And like only a handful of designers today — Karl Lagerfeld, Rei Kawakubo, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano and, to a lesser extent, Oscar de la Renta — he was able to embrace current waves of fashion without sacrificing technique and actuality.
Instead, he advises a return to Greek concepts of potentiality and actuality, although without the Greek tendency to see natural ends as perfections.
Without the introduction of the actuality operator, or some related maneuver, it is unclear that the modal structuralist would be in a position to preserve the physical content of the scientific theory in question.
But change is neither identical to this potentiality, nor to the lack of a property, nor, without further qualifications, to the actuality which is acquired when the potentiality is actualised (Physics 3.2, 201b33 35).
