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Definition of Entelechy

Entelechy
Entelechy En*tel"e*chy, n. [L. entelechia, Gr. ?, prob. fr. ? ? ? to be complete; ? + ? completion, end + ? to have or hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.

Meaning of Entelechy from wikipedia

- Wilhelm Leibniz. Aristotle's concept of entelechy retains influence on recent concepts of biological "entelechy". Look up potentiality, potentia, or δύναμις...
- Entelechy Arts is an integrated arts company and registered charity based in London, United Kingdom. One of its artists is Charles Hayward (musician)...
- experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also been credited with performing the first artificial 'cloning'...
- ordering. The basic order is three-tiered: (1) entelechies or created monads (§48), (2) souls or entelechies with perception and memory (§19), and (3) spirits...
- Singles chart. The song's title is a play on the philosophical concept of entelechy. The phrase "Urge Overkill" from George Clinton's radio announcer-style...
- 1985 Marina Mandarin Singapore, 1985 The Pan Pacific Singapore, 1986 Entelechy II, Sea Island, 1986 New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, 1982–1985...
- their observations. German biologist Hans Driesch (1867–1941), proposed entelechy, an energy which he believed controlled organic processes.[unreliable...
- Weiss and others. The concept was similar to the meaning of the term entelechy of vitalists like Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (1867–1941). By the 1930s...
- involved." "The ****umption of an extra-physical vitalis (vital force, entelechy, élan vital, etc.), as formulated in most forms (old or new) of vitalism...
- "Information should be free", by acknowledging that the internal force or entelechy of information and knowledge makes it essentially incompatible with notions...