Capacity
Capacity
Any ability, potentiality, power or talent possessed by anything, either to act or to suffer. It may be innate or acquired, dormant or active. The topic of capacity figures, in the main, in two branches of philosophy(a) in metaphysics, as in Aristotle’s discussion of potentiality and actuality, (b) in ethics, where an agent’s capacities are usually regarded as having some bearing on the question as to what his duties are. — W.K.F.