POTENCY AND ACT IN THE PHILOCHRONY

Aristotle's theory of potency and act

Aristotle resolved the problem of permanence and change by introducing the factors of potency and act, which appear as matter and form. Act means full and perfect existence, as if the most perfect action of a thing is just to be what it is. Potency means what a thing can be, but is not yet in actuality. The real things of nature are composed of these two factors. They are in act, because they really exist. But their existence is incomplete, because they are subject to change, and so they have a potency to certain kinds of changes. The Greek word for act is energeia, and the word for potency is dynamis.

From: http://www.hyoomik.com/phi205/arche.htm

Looking up the TV off in my room I every time wondered why it was still there now, in the present?

For Philochrony potency is the becoming and the act are the objects, bodies and phenomena. Time is the permanence of an act in reality. Everything happens or becomes, nothing is left in the past and everything is moving forward.

Differences between Aristotles (A) and the Philochrony (P)

1 (A): Potency is the matter and the act is the form.
1 (P): Potency is the becoming and the act are the objects and phenomena.

2 (A): Change is the transition from potency to act.
2 (P): Change is the variation or activity and has duration.

3 (A): Change is sporadic.
3 (P): Change is continuous.

The act is a particular manifestation of becoming (potency). The TV remains there because it is an act. Act means fact or action, although for Aristotle was the form.