In popular discourse, it’s common to refer to people as having or not having power—yet the abstraction itself, power, is rarely defined. Is power something that can be possessed? Quantified? Is it an absolute value or a relative one? Is power inherently something one exercises over others?
Power takes its name from potency, possibility, and potentiality,…
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