Titlebook: Handbook of Potentiality; Kristina Engelhard,Michael Quante Book 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 A

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Introduction,“The world is full of threats and promises” (Goodman ., 40); not only do we want to know which threats and promises there presently are, but also which ones there will be—maybe to a certain degree of certainty—in the future.

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Potentiality in Aristotle’s Metaphysicsalternatives in contemporary metaphysics, thus assessing its relative strengths. The chapter argues that Aristotle held what is currently known as a “pure” power ontology, with no categorical properties at the fundamental level and no categorical base to the fundamental powers. In Aristotle’s system

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Potentiality in Aristotle’s Psychology and Ethicsnotion of potentiality is embedded in a causal framework that is characteristic of life in general. A key theme is the distinction of various meanings of ‘to know’. In his early work the possession of knowledge is distinguished from its use. In . Aristotle adds the potentiality for acquiring knowled

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五行打油诗

出生

Potentiality in Rationalismo a genuinely new state, a development which is grounded in the original constitution of its subject but is not necessitated by it. This presupposes a plurality of independent substances, in order to contrast the inner basis of development with its external conditions. Furthermore, genuine possibili

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Potentiality in British Empiricismit may appear as a challenge to account for potentialities and potentials. For potentialities and potentials are not perceivable. In attributing powers etc. to objects we attribute properties typically only actualized in the future. Regarding our knowledge of objects, Locke, Berkeley and Hume claim

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Powers and Potentialitymends the powers view is its explanatory utility, including a putative explanation of potentiality. Powers can be understood as the elements in the world that provide the grounding for potentiality in actuality. They can be productive of their manifestations but typically do so only in certain circu

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From Potentiality to Possibilitytuitive level, potentialities of objects (the fragility of a given glass, for instance) are much closer to common sense and much better understood than the more usual philosophers’ device in understanding modality, possible worlds. On a theoretical level, we can see that potentiality and possibility