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‖ actus purus Philos.|ˌæktəs ˈpjʊərəs|
Also purus actus.
[med.L., ‘pure act’, tr. Gr. ἐνέργεια.]
Actuality unmixed with potentiality; pure act (act n. 3). Also, a mental act uncontaminated by elements of sensory awareness (see quots. 1890).
[a1274Aquinas Sum. Theol. i. 14. 2 Cum igitur Deus nihil potentialitatis habeat, sed sit actus purus.] 1707–8Berkeley Commonpl. Bk. (1944) No. 701 The substance of Spirit we do not know..it being purus actus. Ibid. No. 828 The Will is purus actus or rather pure Spirit. 1878S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Reflection ii. 12 Pure energy, actus purus, without anything merely potential. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. i. ix. 245 They are known, these relations,..by an actus purus of Thought, Intellect, or Reason. Ibid. xii. 474 The conceptualists..invent..as the vehicle of the knowledge of universals, an actus purus intellectûs, or an Ego, whose function is treated as quasi-miraculous...The nominalists..dislike actus puros. |