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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.1And since the senses of being are
analyzable2 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—
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