# Act and potency

- Id: `act_and_potency`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/act-and-potency/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `9e0e68572850353074a3394c00ee988e6f9bb800b15f06853b7f7f21bb60fd3c`

## Summary

Act and potency distinguish what is realized from what can be realized through a definite capacity, explaining change, fulfilment, and limitation.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23,323 passages across 1 works, including Summa Theologiae. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 23323,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```