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    Aquinas distinguishes active potency (power to act) from ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The First Being has no potentiality for any predicate it does not already possess by its essence.

    Aquinas distinguishes active potency (power to act) from passive potency (capacity to receive); the First Being may possess infinite active potency without passive potency.

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