Being altered by sensation counts as an achievement that actualizes potential

Evidence

One could certainly say that what is sensed alters that which senses. But this alteration needs to be understood as an achievement. According to a paradox which is only too obvious, it is solely through the work of this alteration that sensation can actualize its potential, that there can be the entelechy of vision. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 440

Categorization

• XREF: The receptivity-as-achievement move parallels the MOC thread’s interest in how passive reception converts into agency without a clear tipping condition.