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In Aristotelian and Scholastic philosophy, the capacity or possibility of a thing to exist or act, often contrasted with 'actuality' (actus). It is central to ontological discussions regarding the nature of being and the process of becoming in Western metaphysics.
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Appears in 214 Books
Ramon Llull; ed. Bernardus la Vinheta
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (trans.)
Ramon Llull / Bernardus de Lavinheta
David Anhaght (Dawit Anyalt)
Hermes Trismegistus
Various (Greek Hermetic texts)
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Plotinus (copied by John Skutariotes for Ficino)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Andrea Cesalpino
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Boethius; Aristotle
Andrea Cesalpino
Albertus Magnus
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Hermes Trismegistus; Apuleius; Marsilio Ficino
Cardinal Bessarion
Philo of Alexandria; Turnebe; Hoeschel (eds.)
John Philoponus
Pseudo-Aristotle; Al-Ghazali; Boethius
Nemesius of Emesa; ed. C.F. Matthaei
John Philoponus
Avicenna; Alexander of Aphrodisias
Marsilio Ficino
Jean Fernel
Bacon, Roger
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Jacopo Zabarella
Maimon, Moses ben
Jacopo Zabarella
Aristotle (Oxford trans. ed. Ross & Smith)
Aristotle (trans. William Alexander Hammond)
Francesco Patrizi
Jacopo Zabarella
Christoph Wittich
Aristoteles, v384-v322
Manget, Jean Jacques
Bacon, Roger
Aristotle
Bacon, Roger
John Philoponus
Matteo Ricci
Menasseh, Ben Israel
Averroes; Kalonymos ben Kalonymos
Antonius Andreae; Thomas Aquinas
Menasseh, Ben Israel
Pseudo-Aristotle
John Philoponus
Justin Martyr (ed. Robert Estienne)
Wilhelm Windelband
Simplicius; ed. Michael Hayduck
Aristotle; John Philoponus
Giordano Bruno
Pierre Duhem
Plotinus; Maximus of Tyre
Vladimir Solovyov
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Jacob of Sarug; Ephrem; Isaac of Antioch; Severus of Antioch
Porphyry; Proclus; Ammonius
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Paul Natorp
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Porphyry; Ammonius
Averroes (Ibn Rushd); Simon van den Bergh (trans.)
Hermes Trismegistus; Plotinus
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel)
John Philoponus
Juncker, Christian
Aristotle
Albertus Magnus
John Philoponus
Freitag, Johann
Pierre Duhem
Aristotle; Immanuel Bekker
Duns Scotus
John Philoponus
Boot, Arnold, 1606-1653; Boot, Gerhard
Vasily Rozanov
Gregory of Nyssa
Vladimir Solovyov
Girolamo Cardano
Aristotle
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Albertus Magnus
Andreas Libavius
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Andrea Cesalpino
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Girolamo Cardano
Giles Du Wes (compiler), Geber, Rasis, pseudo-Arnald of Villanova
Francesco Patrizi
Gautama (trans. Ganganatha Jha)
Hermes Trismegistus
Simplicius; Hermann Diels (ed.)
Ocellus Lucanus; Thomas Taylor (trans.); Taurus; Firmicus Maternus; Proclus
Ocellus Lucanus; Carlo Emanuele Vizzani (ed.)
John Philoponus; ed. Michael Hayduck
Plotinus; Porphyry
Herodotus; Plutarch; Gemistus Plethon
Nikephoros Blemmydes
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Ghazali, Abu Hamid ibn Muhammad al-
Postel, Guillaume
Lavinheta, Bernardus de
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Aristotle
Maximus of Tyre
Raynaud, Théophile
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Erastus, Thomas
Christian Wolff
Duns Scotus
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Averroes; Kalonymos ben Kalonymos
Pierre Duhem
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Mornay, Philippe de
Albertus Magnus
Johann Jakob Brucker
Jacopo Zabarella
Philo of Alexandria; Turnebe; Hoeschel (eds.)
Jacopo Zabarella
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Pierre Duhem
Nicephorus Blemmydes
John Philoponus
John Philoponus
John Philoponus
Pierre Duhem
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Aristotle
Daniel Sennert
George Gemistos Plethon; Cardinal Bessarion
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Paul Natorp
Jacques-Paul Migne
Aquinas, Thomas; Planudes, Maximus
Mairhofer, Matthias