entelechy

/en-tel-uh-kee/US // ɛnˈtɛl ə ki //UK // (ɛnˈtɛlɪkɪ) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural en·tel·e·chies.
- : a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
- : a vital agent or force directing growth and life.

Shall we say with Aristotle, that the soul is the entelechy or form of an organized living body?
In particular, he picked out the Aristotelian "entelechy" to stop a gap in the philosophy of his own age.'
Entelechy was a useful name for X, the more so as it had the authority of Aristotle, the master of scholasticism.
We could regard what is called catalysis solely as an agent in the service of entelechy.
Let us again apply the name entelechy to that which lies at the very beginning of all individual morphogenesis.