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An attempt to synthesize the materials and the schemes that are given in Tables 5 and 6 leads to the alignments of capacities that are shown in Table 7.  I do not pretend that the resulting alignments are perfect, since there is clearly some sort of twist taking place between the top and the bottom of this synthetic arrangement.  Perhaps this is due to the alterations of case, tense, and grammatical category that occur throughout the paradigm, or perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the relationships through the middle of the Table are more analogical than categorical.  For the moment I am content to leave all the paradoxes intact, taking the pattern of tensions and torsions as a puzzle for future study.

An attempt to synthesize the materials and the schemes that are given in Tables 5 and 6 leads to the alignments of capacities that are shown in Table 7.  I do not pretend that the resulting alignments are perfect, since there is clearly some sort of twist taking place between the top and the bottom of this synthetic arrangement.  Perhaps this is due to the alterations of case, tense, and grammatical category that occur throughout the paradigm, or perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the relationships through the middle of the Table are more analogical than categorical.  For the moment I am content to leave all the paradoxes intact, taking the pattern of tensions and torsions as a puzzle for future study.

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Table 7. Synthesis of Alignments

 

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|     Formal       |         Formative         |

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<math>\text{Table 7.} ~~ \text{Synthesis of Alignments}\!</math>

|     Objective     |       Instrumental         |

|- style="height:40px; background:#f0f0ff"

|     Passive     |           Active           |

| <math>\text{Formal}\!</math>

|     Afforded     | Possessed   | Exercised   |

| colspan="2" | <math>\text{Formative}\!</math>

|     To Hold     |   To Have   |   To Use   |

|-

|   Receptivity   | Possession |   Exercise   |

| <math>\text{Objective}\!</math>

|   Potentiality   |         Actuality         |

| colspan="2" | <math>\text{Instrumental}\!</math>

|     Matter       |           Form             |

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| colspan="2" | <math>\text{Active}\!</math>

|-

| width="33%" | <math>\text{Afforded}\!</math>

| width="33%" | <math>\text{Possessed}\!</math>

| width="33%" | <math>\text{Exercised}\!</math>

|-

| <math>\text{To Hold}\!</math>

| <math>\text{To Have}\!</math>

| <math>\text{To Use}\!</math>

|-

| <math>\text{Receptivity}\!</math>

| <math>\text{Possession}\!</math>

| <math>\text{Exercise}\!</math>

|-

| <math>\text{Potentiality}\!</math>

| colspan="2" | <math>\text{Actuality}\!</math>

|-

| <math>\text{Matter}\!</math>

| colspan="2" | <math>\text{Form}\!</math>

|}

 

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Due to the importance of Aristotle's account for every discussion that follows it, not to mention for the many that follow it without knowing it, and because the issues it raises arise repeatedly throughout this work, I am going to cite an extended extract from the relevant text (Aristotle, ''On the Soul'', 2.1), breaking up the argument into a number of individual premisses, stages, and examples.

Due to the importance of Aristotle's account for every discussion that follows it, not to mention for the many that follow it without knowing it, and because the issues it raises arise repeatedly throughout this work, I am going to cite an extended extract from the relevant text (Aristotle, ''On the Soul'', 2.1), breaking up the argument into a number of individual premisses, stages, and examples.