entelechy

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And he already showed his hand in his praise for the entelechy.

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  1. noun In the philosophy of Aristotle, the condition of a thing whose essence is fully realized; actuality.
  2. noun In some philosophical systems, a vital force that directs an organism toward self-fulfillment.

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  • The rubble piles are all brand-new, and in the fierce winds they have been sculpted like dunes into high peaks. —  Mother Of Storms
  • And he already showed his hand in his praise for the entelechy. —  Kant's Philosophical Development
  • Emily Beeber's daughter never finds dead bodies. —  Seven Up
  • Once the noise turns out to be a pig. —  Mother Of Storms
  • ‘mechanists’, who supposed that the processes of life were governed wholly by physical-chemical principles, contended with the extreme anti-reductionist ‘vitalists,’ who posited an entelechy, a primitive substance or directing principle embodied in the organism which guided such characteristic vital processes as embryonic development and the regeneration of lost parts. [ —  Emergent Properties
 

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  1. Late Latin entelechīa, from Greek entelekheia : entelēs, complete (en-, in; see en-2 + telos, completion; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots) + ekhein, to have; see segh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin entelechia, from Greek ἐντελέχεια, actuality, from ἐν τέλει ἒχειν, be complete (cf. ἐντελής, complete, full): ἐν, in; τέλει, dative of τέλος, end, completion; ἒχειν, have, hold, intransitive be.
 

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