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might serve as another illustration: the loaded gun, or the engine with steam buildup, represent first actualities; the bullet speeding to the mark, the engine flying over the rails, represent second actualities.
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constituted by these two principles receives further determinations, which are, in that respect, second actualities. Yet these may also be conceived as first actualities. Thus the
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But as the same reality may be called "actuality" when viewed in the light of what precedes, and "potentiality" when viewed in the light of what follows (see
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means determination or complement. In every being there are many actualities, which are subordinated. Thus, existence supposes
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preceding it in the same series, but calls for a further complement, namely, the second actuality (
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is to actually perform acts of vision. The modern distinction of
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of a substance is a first actuality when compared to the
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