e source of change in another thing or in the thing itself qua other. For one kind is a potency of being acted on,Evgeni Malkin Tröjor, i.e. the originative source, in the very thing acted on, of its being passively changed by another thing or by itself qua other; and another kind is a state of insusceptibility to change for the worse and to destruction by another thing or by the thing itself qua other by virtue of an originative source of change. In all these definitions is implied the formula if potency in the primary sense.-And again these so-called potencies are potencies either of merely acting or being acted on, or of acting or being acted on well, so that even in the formulae of the latter the formulae of the prior kinds of potency are somehow implied.
Obviously,Semyon Varlamov Tröjor, then, in a sense the potency of acting and of being acted on is one (for a thing may be ‘capable’ either because it can itself be acted on or because something else can be acted on by it), but in a sense the potencies are different. For the one is in the thing acted on; it is because it contains a certain originative source,Dame Moncler Epine, and because even the matter is an originative source, that the thing acted on is acted on, and one thing by one,Dame Moncler Fragon, another by another; for that which is oily can be burnt, and that which yields in a particular way can be crushed; and similarly in all other cases. But the other potency is in the agent,PJS Herreklær Harraseeket Parkas, e.g. heat and the art of building are present,CG Dame Brookvale Hoody, one in that which can produce heat and the other in the man who can build. And so, in so far as a thing is an organic unity, it cannot be acted on by itself; for it is one and not two different things. And ‘impotence’and ‘impotent’ stand for the privation which is contrary to potency of this sort, so that every potency belongs to the same subject and refers to the same process as a corresponding impotence. Privation has several senses; for it means (1) that which has not a certain quality and (2) that which might naturally have it but has not it, either (a) in general or (b) when it might naturally have it,Jason Spezza Tröjor, and either (a) in some particular way, e.g. when it has not it completely, or (b) when it has not it at all. And in certain cases if things which naturally have a quality lose it by violence,PJS Dameklær Alaska Parkas, we say they have suffered privation.
Book IX Chapter 2
Since some such originative sources are present in soulless things, and others in things possessed of soul,Män Outerwear, and in soul, and in the rational part of the soul, clearly some potencies will, be non-rational and some will be non-rational and some will be accompanied by a rational formula. This is why all arts, i.e. all productive forms of knowledge,Ralph Lauren Jackets, are potencies; they are originative sources of change in another thing or in the artist himself considered as other.
And each of those which are accompanied by a rational formula is alike capable of contrary effects,Ralph Lauren ärmlös polo, but one non-rational power produces one effect; e.g. the hot is capable only of heating,Canada Goose Camp Hooded, but the medical art can produce both disease and health. The reason is that science is a rational for
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