Aristotle's account of potentiality in Metaphysics Theta allows for capacities that are context-sensitive and lack sharp boundaries, admitting of degrees without determinate termini.
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Potentiality(Used in the Aristotelian sense; Fârâbî argues the First Being has no potentiality.)
The capacity of a being to possess a predicate or property it does not currently possess by its essence, requiring actualization by something external that already has that property.
Clear-cut dividing lines with no gray area; something either definitely belongs in a category or definitely doesn't, with nothing fuzzy in between.
context-sensitive(Used to describe terms like 'I' and 'left' whose reference shifts with the context of use.)
A term whose semantic value or referent varies depending on features of the context of utterance, such as the identity or orientation of the speaker.
metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.