
HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Theory of Time
For aristotle, any chan is going to be a transition from potentiality to actuality. This will be true of both spatial motion and change more generally. When i am on my way from london to paris, i have partially but not completely actualized my potential for moving towards paris. At the very moment where i reach paris, my potentiality is full actualized, because i am actually in paris. As soon as that happens, the change is over. It is complete. Likewise, something that is potentially hot is partially actualized as it is heated, and fully actual once it is hot. Every change is identified by the end state towards which it is
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