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potentiality

[puh-ten-shee-al-i-tee] / pəˌtɛn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /


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Potentiality in Aristotelian thought, the level to which a being’s purpose might reach.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Potentiality: 1,000 votes for Thomas; 2,000 votes for Landon; 3,000 votes for Roosevelt.

From Time Magazine Archive

This month, however, the growth center that held its first seminar on "The Human Potentiality" marks its 25th anniversary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Potentiality: 100 votes for Landon, 1,000 votes for Roosevelt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Potentiality and actuality are contradictory states and cannot exist side by side in the same thing at the same time in the same relation.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac