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Actuality and Potentiality
(Metaphysics)
CUET PG – Philosophy (Practice Questions)
1. The systematic articulation of potentiality and actuality is first credited to which philosopher?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Parmenides
D. Heraclitus
Answer: B
2. In Aristotelian philosophy, the Greek term dynamis refers to:
A. Completed being
B. Actual existence
C. Capacity or power to be otherwise
D. Eternal substance
Answer: C
3. The Greek term energeia is best translated as:
A. Latent capacity
B. Being-at-work or activity
C. Mere possibility
D. Material substrate
Answer: B
4. Aristotle most extensively discusses potentiality and actuality in:
A. Categories
B. Nicomachean Ethics
C. Metaphysics
D. Rhetoric
Answer: C
5. Which Aristotelian work defines change as the actuality of what exists potentially?
A. Metaphysics IX
B. Physics III
C. On the Soul
D. Posterior Analytics
Answer: B