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Etymology edit

non- +‎ actualizable

Adjective edit

nonactualizable (not comparable)

  1. Not actualizable; Not able to be made real.
    • 2012, Adrian Pabst, Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy, page 129:
      To say this is to say that nonactualizable potencies are false—the only truth about such potencies is that they are not.
    • 2018, Biwu Shang, Unnatural Narrative across Borders:
      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).
    • 2021, Justin J. Daeley, Why God Must Do What is Best, page 98:
      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.