Actuality & Potentiality
What does Potency tell you
What is the thing's possibilities?
What is first act
What is second act
What is the creation, you can't see it?
What is anything the object does in post-creation?
What form describes a person’s brown hair or green eyes
What form exists on its own
What is accidental form, it describes something (*adjective*)?
What is substantial form?
In philosophical terms, what does change mean
What is the potency of the thing is actualized?
(It is the movement from potency to actuality)
TRUE OR FALSE
Form is for the Matter
What is False
(Matter is for the Form because the form is the reason for why the matter is even there-the matter is actualized by the form.)
How many substantial forms can a physical thing have
How many accidental forms can a physical thing have
What is one substantial form?
What is lots of accidental forms because it accounts for its size, shape, or color?
What does Actuality tell you
What is real, truly exists?
What two principles does Aristotle and Aquinas hold that every physical thing is made of
What is Form and Matter?
Any physical substance whose prime matter has been actualized by a substantial form is . . .
What is pure potential that you can’t see . . .
What is secondary matter
What is prime matter?
The potency of a thing must be raised to act by something that is . . .
What is in act?
("Whatever is moved is moved by another")
Aquinas explains, then, that the potency must be raised to act by . . .
What is something that is act.
("whatever is moved is moved by another")
What does change require
Something is only able to change if . . .
What is a constant?
What is having potency for the change? (The potency is replaced by actuality.)
Does anything come before potentiality, if so what and explain why
What is yes
Actuality comes before potentiality. Without actuality, potency couldn't exist.
What is intrinsic principles of physical things?
(which means the principles are from within a thing)
What is substantial change
What is accidental change
What is a complete change of the substance?
What is the change of accidents, it is still ultimately the same object?
What is the constant in substantial change
What is prime matter?
What is the constant in accidental change
What is the object that went through the accidental change?