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Full Idea
Things are broken, compressed, bent and, in a word, destroyed not by dint of having a potentiality but by dint of not having one and by missing out on something.
Gist of Idea
Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1019a27)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.132
A Reaction
Presumably an ontology entirely based on powers would not also need to catalogue absence of powers. The positive ones do the job. No power, no destruction.