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2 unusual facts about potentiality and actuality


Potentiality and actuality

Kinesis, translated as movement, motion, or in some contexts change, is also explained by Aristotle as a particular type of energeia.

Aristotle discusses motion (kinēsis) in his Physics quite differently than modern science does.


Genotype-phenotype distinction

The genotype-phenotype distinction is very similar to Aristotle's distinction between potentiality and actuality.


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