| 单词 | entitative act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasentitative act entitative act n. transl. Latin actus entitātīvus, a term used by the Scotists to denote ‘material’ as opposed to ‘formal’ or ‘quiditative’ actuality. The word act in this phrase has its scholastic sense, ‘that which differentiates an “actual” from a “potential” existence’. Duns Scotus, differing from Aquinas, recognized two kinds of ‘act’, i.e. two senses or degrees in which a thing might be said to have ‘actual’ existence: in one sense it is ‘actual’ if it simply possesses the ‘matter’ by virtue of which it has any existence other than merely potential; in the other sense, it is actual only when it possesses the ‘form’ which gives it specific existence. Hence in the language of his disciples the entitative act is the ‘matter’ of an actually existing thing, while the formal act is its ‘form’; or, more accurately, they denote the possession of ‘matter’ and ‘form’ respectively.extracted from entitativeadj.< as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。