What is "potentials"

Usage examples of "potentials".

Both Fichte and Schelling make much of the notion of the unconscious, quite along the lines used by Plotinus: the higher stages are implicit in the lower, they are unconscious potentials of the lower, and as they develop they envelop.

Plotinus to Hegel, from Asanga to Aurobindo, from Schelling to Shankara, from Abhinavagupta to the Lankavatara Sutraare all attempts to take into account that the depths of the higher structural potentials are already present but not seen.

Drawing upon such potentials led them to great achievements in all areas, including history, science, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy.

Kosmos that produced the human brain are being, to some degree, recognized by that brain: in this special sense, they are discoveries, un-coveries, recognitions, anamnesias, recollections, apprehensions of patterns and worldspaces present as potentials but only now being actualized or apprehended in individual cases.

In the noosphere, cognitive behavior-ists and linguists, from Piaget to Chomsky, have dealt with various transcription rules, whereby the potentials of the deep structure are unfolded in actual surface structures.

Further, as I pointed out in Eye to eye, each of the basic structures of human consciousness are collectively inherited potentials, but that does not mean the potentials were manifest in the past.

In this way, the potentials of a vital public realm of informed, practical reason and action, associated with much of the promise of democratic movements, has also been only partly developed.

Odille and I began to make a life, an easy and indulgent life that seemed in its potentials for pleasure and consolation proof against any outside influence.

And perhaps her rejection of love, her sublimation of desire, and her decision to view the life of her heart in terms of an emotional IRA, a long-term yuppie investment, choosing the security of what she could endure over the potentials of hopemaybe that was all of which she was capable.

And as to Bill, his dangerous potentials, he had never displayed any sign that he was capable of enduring the kind of pain he must have endured, or of employing logic sufficiently well so as to plan even such a simple act as he perpetrated.

While it was not in my nature to be afraid, I had a sudden comprehension of fear, of its potentials, and this caused me to become more alert to my surroundings, as might happen when food was near.

On the other hand, its long-term potentials were much greater, and the Klestronu incursion had given it reason to expand its fighting forces.

The knowledge of Total Mind Power has been gathered and synthesized in a usable form and combined with practical applications - to permit everyone to reach their full potentials in all areas of life.

Total Mind Power, Walter said, did he find the technique for using all the potentials of his successes.

Releasing high-energy particles into the regions near the many thousands of communications satellites would destroy them by charging them up until the potentials shorted out components.