Aristotle distinguishes two aspects of ordinary things: form and matter. Form only exists when it enforms matter. Matter is just potential to be enformed.
Aristotle identifies matter with potentiality, form with actuality. "For, as we said, word substance has three meanings, form, matter, and the complex of both and of these three, what is called matter is potentiality, what is called form actuality." (De Anima, II) (According to Heisenberg wavefunctions are "potentialities", at least before measurements). > Il 26 maggio 2018 alle 10.13 agrayson2...@gmail.com ha scritto: > > What is it according to Aristotle (or whoever is responsible for the > concept), and what is the basis for refuting its existence? -- in 25 words or > less. AG > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com . > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
