The vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical : with quotations and references for the use of students / by William Fleming ; edited by Henry Calderwood.
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- 1876
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![ACTUAL— ment, or of change; and which, if unhindered by anything external, will be of itself. Actuality or entelechy, on the other hand, indicates the perfect act, the end as gained, the completely actual (the grown-up tree, e.g., is the entelechy of the seed-corn), that activity in which the act and the com- pleteness ol the act fall together, e.g., to see, to think where he sees and he has seen, he thinks and he has thought (the acting and the completeness of the act), are one and the same, while in these activities which involve a becoming, e.g., to learn, to go, to become well, the two are separated.”— Schwegler, Hist, of Phil. (Stirling), p. 108. Actual is also opposed to virtual. The oak is shut up in the acorn virtually. Actual is also opposed to real. My will, though really existing as a faculty, only begins to have an actual existence from the time that I will anything. V. Real, Virtual. ACTUS PRIMUS (in scholastic philosophy)—est rei esse, or actus quidditativus. ACTUS SECUNDUS—est rei operari, or aches entitativus. ADAGE {ad agendum aptum)—a practical saying, fit for use, a rule of action. “ From the Latin adagium, a saving handed down from antiquity, comes the English adage, which denotes an antique proverb.”—Taylor, Synonyms. On the disagree- ment and similitude between adagies, apophthegms, and moral Tvup.a.i, see Erasmus, in the Prolegomena to his Adagia. ADEPT (adipiscor, to attain). Among alchemists those who were said to have found the panacea, a universal medicine, and the philosopher’s stone were called adepts, adepti. ADEQUATE (adequo, to equal), is applied to our cognitions and ideas. Our knowledge of an object is adequate or complete when it extends to all the properties of that object. An idea is adequate when it is conformable to the nature of the object which it represents. ADJURATION (from ad-juro, to put upon oath). [A solemn appeal, under sanction of the forms of justice.—Ed.] “ Our Saviour, when the high priest adjured him by the living God, made no scruple of replying upon that adjuration.—Clarke, Works, vol. ii. ser. 125. ADMIRATION.—[Delight in contemplation of an object.—Ed.] “ We shall find that admiration is as superior to surprise and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2199531x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
