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Potentiality and actuality

In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and On the Soul. In this context, the concept of potentiality generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have. Aristotle did…

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Post-Aristotelian usage

PolybiusDiodorus SiculusSocietyPlatoBecoming
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Potentiality

Ancient GreekLatinEarly modernHobbesLocke
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Active intellect

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Actuality

EnergyHistory of scienceAnglo-Saxon rootsPleasureHappiness
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Potentiality

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Motion

Importance of actuality in Aristotle's philosophy

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Potentiality and actuality

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related to Influence on early modern physics · 17
Potentiality and actuality → Aristotelian, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Bacon's, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Galileo's, He, In, Instead, Latin, Leibniz, Leibniz's, Novum Organon, The, There, Thomas Hobbes
related to Importance of actuality in Aristotle's philosophy · 9
Potentiality and actuality → Aristotle, Aristotle's, Aristotle's Metaphysics, For, In, People, The, This, We
related to "Product" interpretation · 6
Potentiality and actuality → Aristotle's, As, Motion, Or, Sachs, Thomas Aquinas

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his ethicsinstance ofthe potentiality-actuality distinction has a significant influence on other areas of Aristotle's thought0.80text
biologyinstance ofthe potentiality-actuality distinction has a significant influence on other areas of Aristotle's thought0.80text
psychologyinstance ofthe potentiality-actuality distinction has a significant influence on other areas of Aristotle's thought0.80text
Stinstance ofOther than incorporation of Neoplatonic into Christendom by early Christian theologians0.80text
Potentiality and actualityrelated to "Product" interpretationSachs0.60section
Potentiality and actualityrelated to "Product" interpretationThomas Aquinas0.60section
Potentiality and actualityrelated to "Product" interpretationAristotle's0.60section
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