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Full Idea
Potentiality in geometry is spoken of metaphorically.
Gist of Idea
Potentiality in geometry is metaphorical
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1019b31)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.134
A Reaction
The point here is that if one wanted to give an account of properties in an active way (perhaps in accord with causation, as Shoemaker suggests), then the properties of mathematics could also be included in this Aristotelian way.