Even as it suggests that ordinary people harbor ugly potentialities, it also testifies to the way our circumstances shape our behavior.
Since Darwinian evolution is not the unfolding of hidden potentialities, it should not be called development.
A contemporary critic wrote, "Those who experienced the tremendous impact of its first performance had full justification for feeling that a great composer had arisen in our land, a composer to whose potentialities it was impossible to set any limits".
PM (Cecelia Ager): Before "Citizen Kane," it's as if the motion picture was a slumbering monster, a mighty force stupidly sleeping, lying there sleek, torpid, complacent — awaiting a fierce young man to come kick it to life. to rouse it, shake it, awaken it to its potentialities, to show it what it's got.
Furthermore, given the potential heterogeneity of neural progenitors in terms of stage of commitment and potentiality, it would be advantageous to specifically isolate or enrich bone fide neural stem cells.
In Aristotle's terminology, the wood has (at least) two different potentialities, since it is potentially a table and also potentially a bowl.
"We are concerned that this individualism may have grown cancerous — that it may be destroying those social integuments that de Tocqueville saw as moderating its more destructive potentialities, that it may be threatening the survival of freedom itself," they wrote.
Avicenna also posits, as had Aristotle originally, the existence of an intermediate stage of potentiality, calling it an "intellect in habitu" (al-'aql bi'l-malakah).
His account is more inclusive than most potentiality accounts: it does not deny moral status to human beings who have lost the potential for agency, nor to radically disabled infants who never had it such potential in any conventional sense of that term.
Imagine a being capable of processing, remembering and sharing information -- a being with potentialities proper to it and inhabiting a world of its own.
Respect for vegetal life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those unproductive from the human point of view.
