| 单词 | pure act |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspure act 4. Activity, action, as opposed to passivity; an active principle. Chiefly in pure act: = actus purus n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] pitheOE i-cundeeOE roota1325 substancec1330 juicec1380 marrowa1382 formc1385 acta1398 quidditya1398 substantial forma1398 inward1398 savourc1400 inwardc1450 allaya1456 essencya1475 being1521 bottom1531 spirit?1534 summary1548 ecceity1549 core1556 flower1568 formality1570 sum and substance1572 alloy1594 soul1598 inwardness1605 quid1606 fibre1607 selfness1611 whatness1611 essentialityc1616 propera1626 the whole shot1628 substantiala1631 esse1642 entity1643 virtuality1646 ingeny1647 quoddity1647 intimacy1648 ens1649 inbeing1661 essence1667 interiority1701 intrinsic1716 stamen1758 character1761 quidditas1782 hyparxis1792 rasa1800 bone1829 what1861 isness1865 inscape1868 as-suchness1909 Wesen1959 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 28v Mannes body of þe whiche body þe soule is act & perfectioun. 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. F1v God's a pure Act (which ne're was Passiue know'n). 1652 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (ed. 2) v. 92 Grace is called the Divine nature, and God (we know) is a pure act, and it is called the life of God. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) clxv. 179 Nothing can be more contrary to God Himself, who is a Pure Act, then the Sleeping and Drowsing away of our Life and Reason. a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 32 But my Reason tells me, God is a pure Act, and therefore how can he suffer any Punishments? a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 211 Whatever is necessarily of him (God of God, Light of Light), is necessarily all act. 1894 Philos. Rev. 3 151 To cause motion in anything is nothing but to reduce it from potentiality to act. 1965 D. Weissman Dispositional Properties iii. 142 Emphasizing the activity of mind to the exclusion of other considerations, Kant implies that mind is pure act, and hence that mind is what it does. 1983 A. Richardson & A. Bowden New Dict. Christian Theol. 4/1 Only the unmoved mover is pure act; it alone has no potentiality to any further modification in any way. < as lemmas |
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