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nonactualizable en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + actualizable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not actualizable; Not able to be made real.
    • It is true that "storymaking practices are of central importance to narrative scholars of all sorts" (Herman 2009: 106), including unnatural narratologists, who are mainly concerned with the unnatural elements of narrative, or to use Alber;s words, the "nonactualizable elements” of narrative (Alber 2016: 3). 2018, Biwu Shang, Unnatural Narrative across Borders:
    • To see this, the contingency of human alternativity free choice solution is dependent upon the distinction between actualizable possible worlds and nonactualizable possible worlds, or for the Molinist, between feasible possible worlds and possible worlds generally. 2021, Justin J. Daeley, Why God Must Do What is Best, page 98:
    • To say this is to say that nonactualizable potencies are false—the only truth about such potencies is that they are not. 2012, Adrian Pabst, Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy, page 129: