e traced back through the concepts of pragmatic philosophy
to a couple of distinctions made by Aristotle in the first textbook of psychology.
In Aristotle's 'Peri Psyche' or 'On the Soul' he discerns in the essential nature
of things the factors of &quot;form&quot; and &quot;matter&quot;.  In regard to animate creatures
Aristotle divines that the actuality of their intelligence is found in their
form while it is the potentiality of mind that is embodied in matter.  The
form and actuality of mentality is lik