potentiality and actuality

Potentiality and actuality, a "possibility" that a thing can be said to have.

Theta sets out to define potentiality and actuality.

It employs Aristotle's dichotomy of potentiality and actuality.

According to Aristotle, the Megarians of his day claimed there was no distinction between potentiality and actuality.

Aristotle's analysis of ethics makes use of his metaphysical theory of potentiality and actuality.

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Potentiality and Actuality are principles of a dichotomy which Aristotle used throughout his philosophical works to analyze motion, causality and other issues.

Aristotle describes potentiality and actuality, or potency and action, as one of several distinctions between things that exist or do not exist.

To understand motion, book III begins with the definition of change based on Aristotle's notions of potentiality and actuality.

Risalah dar quwwah wafi'(Treatise on Potentiality and Actuality).

Wilhelm Preger thought that Eckhart's distinction between Deity and God should be interpreted as a distinction between potentiality and actuality.

While the number of spheres in the model itself was subject to change, (47 or 55), Aristotle's account of aether, and of potentiality and actuality, required an individual unmoved mover for each sphere.

The passage tries to explain "how the human intellect passes from its original state, in which it does not think, to a subsequent state, in which it does" according to his distinction between potentiality and actuality.

Knowledge, following Aristotle, is energeia or perfect act which in itself does not consist in any kind of substance, nor fits into the categories of space and time, as all existing objects do (see Aristotle's theory of potentiality and actuality).

Aristotle's explanation of how this was possible, was not strictly empiricist in a modern sense, but rather based on his theory of potentiality and actuality, and experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of the active nous.

In philosophy, Potentiality and Actuality are principles of a dichotomy which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics and De Anima (which is about the human psyche).

There was an adaptation of at least one aspect of Aristotle's potentiality and actuality distinction, which has become part of modern physics, although as per Bacon's approach it is a generalized form of energy, not one connected to specific forms for specific things.

This "machinery" includes potentiality and actuality, hylomorphism, the theory of categories, and "an audacious and intriguing argument, that the bare existence of change requires the postulation of a first cause, an unmoved mover whose necessary existence underpins the ceaseless activity of the world of motion".