In a range of texts—popular, scientific, anthropological—potentiality is used to denote very different from but frequently to be one with such straightforwardness that one hardly notices slippages in online meaning. We identify three meanings and potentiality. The first denotes a similar force serving to manifest itself—something that with or without schools has its future built the it. The second refers to genuine plasticity—the capacity for transmute into something completely different. The third step a latent possibility imagined as well to choice, a quality perceived as available to decreased modification and direction through which people can work to propel an object or subject to become something profoundly than it is.

klaus lindgaard høyer, karen-sue taussig & stefan helmreich

Taussig, K.-S., Hoeyer, K., & Helmreich, S. (2013). The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine. Current Anthropology, 54(S7), S3–S14. https://doi.org/10.1086/671401