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  • adjective Not actualized.

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un- +‎ actualized

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Examples

  • The vast majority of us do not come close to tapping what scientists call our "unactualized potential."

    The Success Myth David Shenk 2010

  • The contrary-to-fact is not unreal, just unactualized.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • The vast majority of us do not come close to tapping what scientists call our "unactualized potential."

    The Success Myth David Shenk 2010

  • Based on one of the most collected and memorable comic book runs in history, the movie Watchmen tries to be all things cosmic and ambiguously moral to all of us unactualized and imperfect people, and it succeeds on most fronts.

    Mike Ragogna: Watchmen: Who's Watching The Watchmen? 2009

  • Bill, that's the point by Ruth on Monday, Jun 29, 2009 at 11: 43: 45 AM unactualized potential by W. Christopher Epler (Bill) on Monday, Jun 29, 2009 at 8: 01: 06 PM

    Does human misery come from victimization or a defective species? 2009

  • Individual Choice by William Whitten on Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 at 1: 06: 21 AM most are not stupid, but unactualized by eric dynamic on Friday, Apr 24, 2009 at 2: 51: 10 AM

    Socialist Successes 2009

  • Being intrinsically possible, they must also be true, if not in our world, then at any rate somewhere, for in an infinite universe no possibility can remain unactualized (an application of the Principle of Plenitude).

    Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

  • He argues that the alleged unactualized potencies cannot be real, because one cannot assume them to be realized at any time without contradiction.

    Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008

  • The result, according to this puzzle, is that nothing is possible except what actually happens: there are no unactualized possibilities.

    Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007

  • If these figures include unactualized being within their ontologies, and if Descartes is building on their work, then his claims about the possible are about unactualized being.

    Descartes' Modal Metaphysics Cunning, David 2006

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