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This is a straw-man argument, because researchers in this field make no assertions about entelechies, gods, or metaphysical agents in interpreting their findings.
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This is a straw-man argument, because researchers in this field make no assertions about entelechies, gods, or metaphysical agents in interpreting their findings.
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This led me back to entelechies, and from the material to the formal, and at last brought me to understand, after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking, that monads or simple substances are the only true substances and that material things are only phenomena, though well founded and well connected.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007
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Julie and Claire are entelechies — informing spirit awaiting flesh and bones.
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Whence it appears that in the smallest particle of matter there is a world of creatures, living beings, animals, entelechies, souls.
The Monadology 2004
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Aristotelian entelechies, of dynamic mental atoms ac - tivating behavior.
BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968
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The historian of aesthetics will note also that “form” was used not only for Aristotle's entelechies but also
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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But in order to distinguish those which have only perception from those which have also sentiment and memory, he will call the latter _souls_, the former _monads_ or _entelechies_.
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+ The universal interaction that goes on in the physical world is the showing forth of the inner aesthetic teleological necessity with which the All-One unfolds his essential being in a multitude of harmonious modifications, a cosmos of concrete ideas (monads, entelechies).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Julie and Claire are entelechies -- informing spirit awaiting flesh and bones.
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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