But acknowledging the reality of potentia absoluta led to a «radical indeterminacy» in which all ordinary assurances about the proper order of things were tossed out the window. (religion-online.org)
These things he is said to do by ordained power [de potentia ordinata]. (religion-online.org)
Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum theory, explicitly made the connection between the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and Greek matter, in its role of potentia; he tried in this way to make sense of attributing a state vector to an individual quantum system. (faith.org.uk)