Potentiality, energy and sway: From Aristotelian to modern to postmodern physics?

Existentia 11 (1-2):27-41 (2001)
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Aristotle’s concept of dynamis (potentiality) is distinct from the modern concept of energy. Both concepts have problematic limitations. We need a third alternative that is here called “sway.”

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