|
Potentiality and actuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
||
|
Aristotle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
||
|
1. The Subject Matter of Aristotle's Metaphysics ... In Metaphysics A.1, Aristotle says that “all men suppose what is called wisdom (sophia) to deal with the first causes (aitia) and the principles (archai) of things” (981b28), and it is these causes and principles that he proposes to ... 12. Actuality and Potentiality...
|
||
|
He describes substance as both formal and material reality, and discusses the relation between potentiality and actuality. ... According to Aristotle, a change must occur in something for its potentiality to become an actuality. The potentiality of something may include its capability to change, or its capability to be...
|
||
|
Grades of Actuality and Potentiality ... At 417a20, Aristotle says that there are different types of both potentiality and actuality. His example concerns different ways in which someone might be described as a knower. One might be called a knower in the sense that he or she:
|
||
|
Aristotle defines it in terms of his concepts of actuality and potentiality. Change, he tells us, is “the actuality of what is potentially, qua such” (Physics III.1). The process of building a house, for example, is the actuality of the buildable materials, qua buildable.
|
||
|
Book Theta discusses potentiality and actuality, considering these concepts first in regard to process or change. When one thing, F, changes into another, G, we can say that F is G in potentiality, while G is G in actuality.
|
||
|
Potency and act, lastly, are said of Aristotles to be a fourth group of concepts that help us understand being but, unlike the other three, these concepts are said of the whole ... Potentiality refers to beings that are not yet come to be; actuality refers to beings that have come to be and are ''now'' (actually) being.
|
||
|
It is necessary to class it with privation or with potentiality or with sheer actuality, yet none of these seems possible. There remains then the suggested mode of definition, namely that it is a sort of actuality, or actuality of the kind described, hard to grasp, but not incapable of existing.
|
||
|
Main articles: AristotleAristotle, by Francesco HayezThe theory of Potentiality and Actuality is one of the central themes of Aristotles philosophy and metaphysics. With these two notions, Aristotle intends to provide a structure for the comprehension of reality. ... Potentiality refers to beings that are not yet come to be;
|
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.