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  1 III, 6  |         first principles; for the potency is prior to the actual cause,
  2   V, 4  |           be changed from its own potency, as e.g. bronze is said
  3   V, 11 |            secondly, according as potency or complete reality is taken
  4   V, 11 |           are prior in respect of potency, others in respect of complete
  5   V, 11 |         complete reality, e.g. in potency the half line is prior to
  6   V, 12 |                               12~"Potency" means (1) a source of movement
  7   V, 12 |          the art of building is a potency which is not in the thing
  8   V, 12 |        art of healing, which is a potency, may be in the man healed,
  9   V, 12 |           not in him qua healed. "Potency" then means the source,
 10   V, 12 |         destroyed not by having a potency but by not having one and
 11   V, 12 |   affected by them, because of a "potency" and because they "can"
 12   V, 12 |          in some positive state.~"Potency" having this variety of
 13   V, 12 |         something else has such a potency; and in one sense that which
 14   V, 12 |        one sense that which has a potency of changing into something,
 15   V, 12 |           itself qua other, has a potency or principle which can destroy
 16   V, 12 |          do so well. This sort of potency is found even in lifeless
 17   V, 12 |        that which may be true.-A "potency" or "power" in geometry
 18   V, 12 |           involve no reference to potency. But the senses which involve
 19   V, 12 |      which involve a reference to potency all refer to the primary
 20   V, 12 |      refer to the primary kind of potency; and this is a source of
 21   V, 12 |         something else has such a potency over them, some because
 22   V, 12 | definition of the primary kind of potency will be "a source of change
 23   V, 15 |      imply an active or a passive potency and the actualizations of
 24   V, 15 |          Of relations which imply potency some further imply particular
 25   V, 15 |          terms imply privation of potency, i.e. "incapable" and terms
 26   V, 15 |       terms which imply number or potency, therefore, are all relative
 27   V, 19 |     respect either of place or of potency or of kind; for there must
 28 VII, 16 |    complete reality as well as in potency, because they have sources
 29 VIII, 5 |      virtue of its corruption the potency and matter of a corpse,
 30 VIII, 6 |         and a difference, between potency and complete reality. But,
 31 VIII, 6 |          caused the movement from potency into actuality. And all
 32  IX, 1  |       distinguished in respect of potency and complete reality, and
 33  IX, 1  |           now add a discussion of potency and complete reality. And
 34  IX, 1  |          And first let us explain potency in the strictest sense,
 35  IX, 1  |          our present purpose. For potency and actuality extend beyond
 36  IX, 1  |        explain the other kinds of potency as well.~We have pointed
 37  IX, 1  |       pointed out elsewhere that "potency" and the word "can" have
 38  IX, 1  |  reference to one primary kind of potency, which is an originative
 39  IX, 1  |          other. For one kind is a potency of being acted on, i.e.
 40  IX, 1  |         is implied the formula if potency in the primary sense.-And
 41  IX, 1  |    formulae of the prior kinds of potency are somehow implied.~Obviously,
 42  IX, 1  |   Obviously, then, in a sense the potency of acting and of being acted
 43  IX, 1  |        other cases. But the other potency is in the agent, e.g. heat
 44  IX, 1  |    privation which is contrary to potency of this sort, so that every
 45  IX, 1  |          this sort, so that every potency belongs to the same subject
 46  IX, 2  |           thing, but science is a potency which depends on the possession
 47  IX, 2  |           And so the things whose potency is according to a rational
 48  IX, 2  |  contrariwise to the things whose potency is non-rational; for the
 49  IX, 2  |          is obvious also that the potency of merely doing a thing
 50  IX, 3  |         that which is deprived of potency is incapable, that which
 51  IX, 3  |           this, so that evidently potency and actuality are different (
 52  IX, 3  |   different (but these views make potency and actuality the same,
 53  IX, 5  |        the way appropriate to the potency in question, the one must
 54  IX, 5  |           with the former kind of potency this is not necessary. For
 55  IX, 5  |        the way appropriate to the potency in question. Therefore everything
 56  IX, 5  |   everything which has a rational potency, when it desires that for
 57  IX, 5  |           that for which it has a potency and in the circumstances
 58  IX, 5  | circumstances in which it has the potency, must do this. And it has
 59  IX, 5  |           do this. And it has the potency in question when the passive
 60  IX, 5  |         necessary; for it has the potency on the terms on which this
 61  IX, 5  |          terms on which this is a potency of acting, and it is this
 62  IX, 5  |      these terms that one has the potency for them, nor is it a potency
 63  IX, 5  |     potency for them, nor is it a potency of doing both at the same
 64  IX, 5  |          the things which it is a potency of doing, on the terms on
 65  IX, 5  |        terms on which one has the potency.~
 66  IX, 6  |       have treated of the kind of potency which is related to movement,
 67  IX, 6  |          that we not only ascribe potency to that whose nature it
 68  IX, 6  |           some are as movement to potency, and the others as substance
 69  IX, 8  |        that actuality is prior to potency. And I mean by potency not
 70  IX, 8  |         to potency. And I mean by potency not only that definite kind
 71  IX, 8  |           is in the same genus as potency; for it is a principle of
 72  IX, 8  |           qua itself. To all such potency, then, actuality is prior
 73  IX, 8  |  generation and of time, prior to potency.~But (3) it is also prior
 74  IX, 8  |         the sake of this that the potency is acquired. For animals
 75  IX, 8  |           more of an end than the potency is. For the act of building
 76  IX, 8  |           in substantial being to potency; and as we have said, one
 77  IX, 8  |         The reason is this. Every potency is at one and the same time
 78  IX, 8  |           one and the same time a potency of the opposite; for, while
 79  IX, 8  |     substance which is matter and potency, not actuality, that causes
 80  IX, 8  |        actuality is prior both to potency and to every principle of
 81  IX, 9  |       more valuable than the good potency is evident from the following
 82  IX, 9  |   potencies at once; for the same potency is a potency of health and
 83  IX, 9  |         for the same potency is a potency of health and illness, of
 84  IX, 9  |  actuality must be worse than the potency; for that which "can" is
 85  IX, 9  |           nature posterior to the potency. And therefore we may also
 86  IX, 9  |         an actuality; so that the potency proceeds from an actuality;
 87  IX, 9  | generation than the corresponding potency). (See diagram.)~
 88  IX, 10 |    secondly with reference to the potency or actuality of these or
 89  XI, 2  |          actuality, but exists in potency. And it would seem rather
 90  XI, 9  |        bronze and to be a certain potency. If it were absolutely the
 91  XI, 9  |           classed either with the potency of things or with their
 92  XI, 9  |          under privation or under potency or under absolute actuality,
 93  XI, 10 |         all short of the other in potency, the finite will be destroyed
 94  XI, 11 |         nor to that which implies potency and is opposed to that which
 95 XII, 2  |           which the matter was in potency. The causes and the principles,
 96 XII, 5  |    principles, i.e. actuality and potency; but these also are not
 97 XII, 6  |    movement; for that which has a potency need not exercise it. Nothing,
 98 XII, 6  |         enough, if its essence is potency; for there will not be eternal
 99 XII, 6  |          to act acts, so that the potency is prior. But if this is
100 XII, 6  |           his account. To suppose potency prior to actuality, then,
101 XII, 6  |       since actuality is prior to potency. If, then, there is a constant
102 XII, 9  |        the act of thinking, but a potency) it cannot be the best substance;
103 XII, 9  |         the act of thinking but a potency, it would be reasonable
104 XII, 10 |         would be posterior to its potency. The world, then, would
105 XIII, 10|     potential and one actual. The potency, being, as matter, universal