Meaning of omni-potentiality | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“We have⟳ already, and variously, accepted and maintained, as far as in us lay⟳ the power, as our "shibboleth" and "coign of vantage," the omni-potentiality of cell force⟳ in making life appear⟳ where life was not, and in forming and developing each and every vital entity, from the lowest to the highest, and adapting them to the conditions by which they are surrounded, […]”

“In this maturational process⟳, one has to give⟳ up the many comforts of dependency, and many fantasies about one's omni-potentiality; for to commit one's self to something necessarily means to surrender⟳ something else.”

“Power, through its perversion of means and ends, not only considers omnipotence the greatest perfection, but, in its perverted form⟳ of greatest perfection, aims at the culmination of all potentialities – omni-potentialities[…]. This means that, at the heights of its omnipotence, power claims that all is potentially possible, but only as long as one does not attempt⟳ to put⟳ it (all potentialities) into action.”

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