Talk:potentiality

RFC discussion: October 2015–February 2021

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potentiality

There are two senses added by our problem IP:

• (philosophy) indeterminism
• (physics) quantum indeterminacy

Unless I'm mistaken, potentiality is something associated with indeterminism and quantum indeterminacy, but not the same as indeterminism or quantum indeterminacy themselves. I was tempted to just revert the IP's edits, but that would leave this entry without any link to indeterminism or quantum indeterminacy- and this term seems to be important to both. Could someone fix this? Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 04:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure how important the term is to either topic. The Wikipedia articles don't mention the word. Are there sources that say it is important? I'd just delete sense 4 and 5. Dbfirs 01:07, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Cleaned up, hopefully. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 18:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)