Turning Into Each Other

Turning Into Each Other

Act, Action, Activity

What is action when it's at home, then?

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Christian Doering
Nov 05, 2025
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What is action, though? My teacher J. G. Bennett distinguished Acts (of Will), Actions (manifestations of Acts) and Activity: constant, chaotic, random, the opposite of intentional. Activities could be the Brownian motion of molecules, the daily comings and goings of individual members of human populations, or the movement of galaxies within the Univers…

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