Ancient thinking—Aristotelian potentiality and actuality, Platonic forms—is now being revalidated because we are being forced to re-enter our experience and analyze it directly, rather than trying to abstract away from it, and when we do so we discover that we actually encounter potentiality and actuality every day of our lives.

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Speaker

Jonathan Pageau

Evidence Quote

when Aristotle talked about potentiality and actuality, I experience that every single day of my life.

Source

A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau: The Symbolic World | EP 206Jordan B Peterson
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:46:10 AM

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