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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: epicure who wrote (7083)3/1/2001 9:13:49 PM
From: E  Respond to of 82486
 
Well, for Greg, then, I present....the difference! (I don't suppose there's anyone at all on this thread who thinks words are not the vehicles with which we carry meaning? And that therefore there meanings are irrelevant?)

No, of course not, so moving right along....

Potential \Po*ten"tial\, n. 1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility

2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality; in prospect


Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at some time; actual existence, that it now is. --Sir W. Hamilton.