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Inasmuch as contraries can be conjoined with each other in six ways, and four of these conjunctions constitute a contrariety, we must grasp the subject of contraries, in order that it may help us both in demolishing and in establishing a view. |
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The first two then of the aforesaid conjunctions do not constitute any contrariety; |
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Moreover, if the accident of a thing have a contrary, see whether it belongs to the subject to which the accident in question has been declared to belong: |
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Or again, look and see if anything has been said about something, of such a kind that if it be true, contrary predicates must necessarily belong to the thing: |
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Again, if there be posited an accident which has a contrary, look and see if that which admits of the accident will admit of its contrary as well: |