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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENERAL AND PARTICULAR ACTUALITY.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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If however what is potential be the substrate, while the actual is both (potential and actual) at the same time, as in the (complete) statue, what then shall we call the form in the metal? We might well call the actuality by which some object exists actually, and not merely potentially, the form and shape; therefore not merely actuality, but the actuality of this individual thing.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42931

IN PERMANENT THINGS, POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALITY MAY COINCIDE. THE FORM ADDED TO MATTER IS THE SPECIFIC ACTUALITY.