Entelechially

//ɛnˈtɛləˌki.əli//

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One imitates entelechially, thereby attaining a universal, insofar as the individual is shown living up to the potentialities of its genus. […] And so, in sum, were the poem (for instance) to imitate a sailor universally, entelechially, it would have him represent to the full the potentialities of sailor as such: speaking nautical terms (even perhaps to the extent of applying nautical analogies to non-nautical matters), scrupulous in the performing of his duties at sea (yet revealing exactly the most relevant temptations to the dereliction of such duties), looking perhaps with a carnival eye upon his times in port, etc.

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In some fundamental way, it seems that the principles of logology and ecology (that is, the entelechies of each) are at odds with each other, for logology, logologic, and logocentricity, if unchecked by large eco-ethical concerns, and allowed to drive entelechially toward the perfection and completion of themselves in the symbolic realm, seem destined to destroy, or perhaps just deny, ecology, ecologic, and the natural world.

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In a pragmatic approach, the telos does not guarantee its results entelechially. The telos itself is the product of semiosis and can be made concrete only when it is used to guide actions.

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[I]f future possibilities exist for the discipline of rhetoric, it must be conceded that, entelechially speaking, even the present state of the discipline of rhetoric existed entelechially prior to the naming of the discipline.

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