Aristotle - index for METAPHYSICS Book 5 Part 22

Privation

Paragraph 1 We speak of 'privation' (1) if something has not one of the attributes which a thing might naturally have, even if this thing itself would not naturally have it;

Paragraph 2 Indeed there are just as many kinds of privations as there are of words with negative prefixes;

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Paragraph 1	We speak of 'privation' (1) if something has not one of the attributes which a thing might naturally have, even if this thing itself would not naturally have it;
Paragraph 2	Indeed there are just as many kinds of privations as there are of words with negative prefixes;