Actuality Sentence Examples

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  • In actuality, it was 7 weeks.

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  • Far removed from actuality as such speculations regarding the priority of intellect or will in the Divine Being may seem to be, the side taken is yet a sure index of the general tendency of a philosophy.

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  • In actuality, he was dead.

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  • In actuality, he was tired of not being in full control.

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  • That is tp say, his gnosis neutralizes all that is empirical and historical, if not always as to its actuality, at least absolutely in respect of its value.

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  • The actuality of things is a defection from the absolute, and their existence compels a reconsideration of our conception of God.

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  • Schelling and Hegel thought it was infinite reason; Schopenhauer, unconscious will; Hartmann, unconscious intelligence and will; Lotze, the activity or life of the divine spirit; Fechner, followed by Paulsen, a world of spiritual actualities comprised in the one spiritual actuality, God, in whom we live and move and have our being.

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  • He said "It seems easier to talk of such a machine than to put it into actuality, for it requires greater force and less weight than exists in a human body.

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  • Wundt accepts Fichte's theory of the actuality, and Fechner's synechological view, of the soul.

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  • If, then, these mental operations were merely actuality, they would be actuality of a man's bodily substance.

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  • It is Wundt's own statement of his solution of the epistemological problem " that on the one hand the whole outer world exists for us only in our ideas, and that on the other hand a consciousness without objects of idea is an empty abstraction which possesses no actuality " (System, 212 -213).

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  • Humanism was now an actuality.

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  • On this view morality, though dependent for its actuality on the social compact which establishes government, is actually binding on man as a reasonable being.

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  • In all actuality, old books are worth very little in most cases.

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  • Normally traditional black and white uniforms are what come to mind, but in actuality, many leagues require referees to wear specific colors.

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  • Aristotle's distinction of form and matter, and his conception of becoming as a transition from actuality to potentiality, provides a new ontological way of conceiving the process of material and organic evolution.'

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  • In logical language, he denies the actuality of the abstract particular.

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  • In general it may be said that Frederick William, in spite of his talents and his wide knowledge, lived in a dream-land of his own, out of touch with actuality.

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  • But for Mr Roosevelt's vigorous official action and his characteristic ability to inspire associates with enthusiasm the canal would still be a subject of diplomatic discussion instead of a physical actuality.

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  • At the same time it connects itself with the second problem, how to attain in conjunction with the abstractly rational character of the absolute an explanation of actuality.

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  • There must be recognized in God as a completed actuality, a dim, obscure ground or basis, which can only be described as not yet being, but as containing in itself the impulse to externalization, to existence.

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  • The result of this confusion is that the moderns have no name at all for a distinct thing, and, being mere slaves of abstract terms, constantly speak of mere attributes, such as activity, life, will, actuality, unity of mental operations, as if they were distinct things.

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  • Religion in this shape is the nearest step to the stage of absolute knowledge; and this absolute knowledge- " the spirit knowing itself as spirit " - is not something which leaves these other forms behind but the full comprehension of them as the organic constituents of its empire; " they are the memory and the sepulchre of its history, and at the same time the actuality, truth and certainty of its throne."

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  • Philosophy alone sees God revealing Himself in the ideal organism of thought as it were a possible deity prior to the world and to any relation between God and actuality; in the natural world, as a series of materialized forces and forms of life; and in the spiritual world as the human soul, the legal and moral order of society, and the creations of art, religion and philosophy.

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  • An effect cannot contain more than its cause, nor the idea of a perfect Being find adequate source save in the actuality of such a Being.

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  • France had already absorbed the earlier Renaissance in an Italianizing spirit before the Reformation made itself felt as a political actuality.

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  • Thus, he says " When I speak of forms I mean nothing more than those laws and determinations of absolute actuality which govern and constitute any simple nature, as heat, light, weight, in every kind of matter and subject that is susceptible of them.

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  • In Trendelenburg's treatment of the state, as the ethical organism in which the individual (the potential man) may be said first to emerge into actuality, we may trace his nurture on the best ideas of Hellenic antiquity.

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  • Of course we are unable to say whether such a region is an actuality in the sun, on the earth it is an exception and transient, but the greater the dimensions of the body the more probable is its occurrence.

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  • This aspect of the matter, however, belongs mainly to the period when arithmetic was studied almost entirely for commercial purposes; and even then accuracy was not found always to harmonize with actuality.

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  • The claims of Virginia (1784) and the other eastern states having been extinguished, a clear field existed for the establishment of Federal jurisdiction in the " Territory North-West of the Ohio," but it was not until 1787 that by the celebrated Ordinance of that year such jurisdiction became an actuality.

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  • Both, however, recognize that this actuality of moral insight is not a function of the intellect only, but depends rather on careful training in good habits applied to minds of good natural dispositions, though the doctrine has no doubt a more definite and prominent place in Aristotle's system.

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  • Its simplest and commonest meaning is that emphasized in the contrast of " faith " with " sight "; where it signifies belief in the invisible divine order represented by the church, in the actuality of the law, the threats, the promises of God, in spite of all the influences in man's natural life that tend to obscure this belief.

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  • Without denying the actuality or importance of that sympathetic pleasure in the perceived or inferred effects of virtues and vices he yet holds that the essential part of common moral sentiment is constituted rather by a more direct sympathy with the impulses that prompt to action or expression.

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  • Finally, Price, writing after the demonstration by Shaftesbury and Butler of the actuality of disinterested impulses in human nature, is bolder and clearer than Cudworth or Clarke in insisting that right actions are to be chosen because they are right by virtuous agents as such, even going so far as to lay down that an act loses its moral worth in proportion as it is done from natural inclination.

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  • Encouraging findings for SME's who may be affected by a risk becoming an actuality.

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  • Steven does not even accept the actuality of God upon which these further possibilities, let alone the actualities, rest.

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  • Or is it just translating the actuality of seeing.

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  • Remember that first actuality is a kind of potentiality - a capacity to engage in the activity which is the corresponding second actuality.

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  • Reason creates and educates itself within and through the totality of social and historical actuality.

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  • Cautionary words, like these have sparked debates on how to accommodate political actuality within the meaning of research.

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  • Being struck by actuality is what we like to regard as constitutive of the actuality of the actual.

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  • Actuality for us is people's experience, captured by the tape recorder.

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  • Ben Armine, in contrast, was simply wonderful, both in memory and in actuality.

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  • In actuality each one is a curved meridian running from pole to pole, crossing the zenith or overhead position of its planet.

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  • Once more, the notion that this indeterminate body contains potentially in itself the fundamental contraries - hot, cold, &c. - by the excretion or evolution of which definite substances were generated, is clearly a forecasting of that antithesis of potentiality and actuality which from Aristotle downwards has been made the basis of so many theories of development.

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  • One of his great aims was optical illusion, carried out by a mastery of perspective which, though not always impeccably correct, nor absolutely superior in principle to the highest contemporary point of attainment, was worked out by himself with strenuous labour, and an effect of actuality astonishing in those times.

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  • Accordingly, when he denies the reality of Being, and declares Becoming, or eternal flux and change, to be the sole actuality, Heraclitus must be understood to enunciate not only the unreality of the abstract notion of being, except as the correlative of that of not-being, but also the physical doctrine that all phenomena are in a state of continuous transition from non-existence to existence, and vice versa, without either distinguishing these propositions or qualifying them by any reference to the relation of thought to experience.

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  • To such spontaneous actuality a large part of their interest and value is due.

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  • Actuality for us is people 's experience, captured by the tape recorder.

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  • In actuality, when Gerber began the hunt for a baby face to illustrate their new product line of baby food, a commercial artist by the name of Dorothy Smith submitted her charcoal drawing of her neighbor's four month old baby, Ann Cook.

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  • Paul & Joe may sound like an American cosmetics company started by two metro men, but in actuality, Paul & Joe started out as a menswear line designed by a woman in France named Sophie Albou.

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  • Those colors might seem a bit scary to wear on the eyes, but in all actuality, shades like shell pink, baby pink, toast, burnt sugar, and warm gold make these colors very wearable.

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  • In all actuality, if he invented anything related to the Internet, he invented the term "Information Superhighway."

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  • In actuality, flowing with the natural motion of your subject can create some amazing photographs with creative effects.

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  • In actuality, it goes back even further when in 1829 Reverend Sylvester Graham toured the country preaching the gospel of whole grains.

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  • They attribute too much worth in the exam, when in actuality, it's only one measure of how well they know the information.

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  • You may think giving into your friends' requests will make them like you more, but in actuality, many times, it will ultimately ruin your friendship with them.

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  • In actuality, the stars are just people, and celebrity murders have become a fact of life.

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  • One might argue that the punk lifestyle is a form of teenage rebellion, but in actuality this movement was born in the 1970s, influenced by the growth of punk rock music.

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  • Being a plus sized woman does not need to feel like a burden when in actuality it is just another form of being beautiful.

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  • In actuality Capri pants are not pedal pushers nor are they clam diggers.

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  • In actuality, this heavy focus on atmosphere and mood make games in the survival horror genre more immersive than most other genres.

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  • Stepdaughter to Shao Kahn, Princess Kitana may appear to be in her twenties, but in actuality she is over 10,000 years old.

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  • In actuality, room temperature is just a bit warm for most reds, which benefit from serving temperatures ranging from about 55 to about 65 degrees.

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  • In actuality, most books that are commonly thought of as antique are simply old.

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  • The condition is, in actuality, a hernia requiring only replacement and strengthening of the passageway through which it occurred.

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  • While there is some disagreement regarding the age children should have their first vision examination, their eyes can, in actuality, be examined at any age, even on the first day of life.

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  • On the other hand, many report that waxing is a wonderful way to remove hair because the results lasts longer than shaving, and that the pain is a bit more hype than an actuality.

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  • Some may think all boarding kennels are the same, when in actuality, they are quite different.

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  • In actuality, sparse bikinis rely on a fairly complicated design that needs a good underwire support system.

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  • In actuality, the term freestyle is used for any stroke the swimmer chooses to do.

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  • While registering your work with the Copyright Office is a voluntary decision on the part of an author, writer or artist, in actuality, your work is copyrighted from the moment you create it.

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  • Colorful and durable might seem like the most obvious needs that should be met, but in actuality there's more to choosing the perfect kids' beach tote than that.

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  • In actuality, determining a budget for your income is the only way that you'll ever know how much money you have to work with.

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  • In actuality, the tribal styles from each island are quite different from one another.

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  • In actuality, it's not the workout itself that is the problem, it's the way that the workout was done.

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  • Where in actuality I find the exact opposite to be true.

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  • Both Commando and Cosabella have managed to create imperceptible undergarments simply because they understand that the feel of "barely there" is best represented by lingerie that is, in all actuality, barely there.

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  • In actuality, this lingerie is no longer produced, which means that it will be harder to find the bras, panties, and hold-ups that you're looking for.

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  • People who haven't heard of Shadowline before might think that the company is newer, but in actuality, Shadowline has been around for nearly 100 years.

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  • In actuality, it's the heat inside your home that causes it.

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  • Many people may throw the diagnosis of lying disorder around but in actuality, it doesn't exist.

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  • He is thought or intellect, the actuality, of which movement is but the fragmentary attainment in successive instants of time.

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  • Katie would probably say it was the way he took control, but in actuality, it was the confidence he exuded.

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