Kitap 9
1
We have now dealt with Being in the primary sense, to which all the other categories of being are related; i.e. substance. For it is from the concept of substance that all the other modes of being take their meaning; both quantity and quality and all other such terms; for they will all involve the concept of substance, as we stated it in the beginning of our discussion.Aristot. Met. 7.1.
2
And since the senses of being are analyzableCf. Aristot. Met. 6.2.1. not only into substance or quality or quantity, but also in accordance with potentiality and actuality and function, let us also gain a clear understanding about potentiality and actuality; and first about potentiality in the sense which is most proper to the word, but not most useful for our present purpose— for potentiality and actuality extend beyond the sphere of terms which only refer to motion.
3
When we have discussed this sense of potentiality we will, in the course of our definitions of actuality,Chs. 6-10. explain the others also.
3
We have made it plain elsewhereAristot. Met. 5.12. that potentiality and can have several senses.
