“It is hoped that such scientists will now come forth to help bring science back to actuality and reason.”
“However, the key distinctions between the two versions have more to do with the actuality of the claims, the litigants' personal connections to them, and how the judges' decisions resonate beyond the frame of the scene.”
“I have as little faith as you do in the actuality of spirits and ghosts.”
actualism
(philosophy) Belief that actuality and existence are co‐extensive: i.e., that only actual things exist, that there are not, in addition to the actual, any possibility (possible entities).
“While this position deserves serious consideration, I propose to set it aside and explore only actualist solutions.”
“There are two widely discussed types of theory concerning the nature of possible worlds: actualist representationism and possibilist realism.”
“Plantinga's version of actualist representationism faces its own version of the Quinean challenge, namely, the problem of specifying the individual essences which are supposed to replace non-actual possible objects.”
(finance) Something actually received; real receipts, as distinct from estimated ones.
(military) A radio callsignmodifier that specifies the commanding officer of the unit or asset denoted by the remainder of the callsign and not the officer's assistant or other designee.
“A very simple parallel can be drawn between actualisations of an enthusiasm for modifying cars and actualisations of an enthusiasm for computer gaming.”
“In contrast to these materialistic views, Aristotelianism considered all natural things as actualisations of fixed natural possibilities, known as forms.”
“This divinity and its creaturely actualizations would counter the love of power with the power of love.”
“Systems, models, and machines predominated, providing either potent metaphors for the ways of the world or compensatory actualizations for the maladjusted.”