Definition of "actable" []

• Able to be acted, as by an actor. (adjective)

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• "The most intelligent performer is he who recognizes most surely this "actable" and distinguishes in it the more from the less."
• "It is eminently "actable," presenting striking tableaus and situations."
• "But it does not set itself genuinely free from the habits contracted in common experience, and to inform its research it preserves the postulates of common-sense; so that it always grasps things by their "actable" side, by their point of contact with our faculty for action, under the forms by which we handle them conceptually or practically, and all it attains of reality is that by which nature is a possible object of language or industry."