Perspective voyage · Fourth century BCE
Can the move from potentiality to actuality explain how something changes while remaining itself?
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Aristotle distinguishes the matter composing an individual substance from the form by which that matter constitutes a functioning whole.
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §12 Actuality and Potentiality, first paragraph
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335 BCE · Around 335 BCE
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