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Hartshorne distinguishes between "the pure concept of actuality and potentiality," on the one hand, and "your actuality [and] potentiality, or· or mine," on the other ("Tillich's Doctrine of God": 188; cf. also 185, where he contrasts "animal knowing" with "knowing in principle," the latter being evidently only verbally different from "the pure concept of knowing," just as the former differs only verbally from "your knowing, or mine."). What is meant, he argues, by "the pure concept of actuality and potentiality" is simply "the determinate in contrast to the determinable," "the determinate" being equivalent to "determinate actuality," "the determinable," to "indeterminate power to actualize."

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