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I am really amazed with the works of Aristotle especially with his books. He have visited a lot
of places. His works remained in peoples’ mind.

In his philosophy, Aristotle distinguished two meanings of the word dunamis. According to his
understanding of nature there was both a weak sense of potential, meaning simply that
something "might chance to happen or not to happen", and a stronger sense, to indicate
how something could be done well. For example, "sometimes we say that those who can
merely take a walk, or speak, without doing it as well as they intended, cannot speak or
walk". This stronger sense is mainly said of the potentials of living things, although it is also
sometimes used for things like musical instruments.

Throughout his works, Aristotle clearly distinguishes things that are stable or persistent, with
their own strong natural tendency to a specific type of change, from things that appear to
occur by chance. He treats these as having a different and more real existence. "Natures
which persist" are said by him to be one of the causes of all things, while natures that do not
persist, "might often be slandered as not being at all by one who fixes his thinking sternly
upon it as upon a criminal". The potencies which persist in a particular material are one way
of describing "the nature itself" of that material, an innate source of motion and rest within
that material