والفعل: هو إخراج شيء من القوة إلى الفعل يسيرا يسيرا كالتبريد والتسخين.
Action is progressively bringing something from potentiality to actuality, as in cooling or heating.
For instance, fire heats the water in a vessel. The analysis concerns the causing of an effect; in this respect, heating (taskhīn) exemplifies action.
Fi‘l here does not mean every grammatical verb in Arabic. A word may be a verb in syntax, while action in the categories has its own philosophical criterion.
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Highest Genera and the Ten Categories
والفعل: هو إخراج شيء من القوة إلى الفعل يسيرا يسيرا كالتبريد والتسخين.
Action is progressively bringing something from potentiality to actuality, as in cooling or heating.
For instance, fire heats the water in a vessel. The analysis concerns the causing of an effect; in this respect, heating (taskhīn) exemplifies action.
Fi‘l here does not mean every grammatical verb in Arabic. A word may be a verb in syntax, while action in the categories has its own philosophical criterion.