-(4) The violent
taking away of anything is called privation.
Indeed there are just as many kinds of privations as there are
of words with negative prefixes; for a thing is called unequal because
it has not equality though it would naturally have it, and invisible
either because it has no colour at all or because it has a poor
colour, and apodous either because it has no feet at all or because it
has imperfect feet. Again, a privative term may be used because the
thing has little of the attribute (and this means having it in a sense
imperfectly), e.g. 'kernel-less'; or because it has it not easily or
not well (e.g. we call a thing uncuttable not only if it cannot be cut
but also if it cannot be cut easily or well); or because it has not
the attribute at all; for it is not the one-eyed man but he who is
sightless in both eyes that is called blind. This is why not every man
is 'good' or 'bad', 'just' or 'unjust', but there is also an
intermediate state.
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To 'have' or 'hold' means many things:-(1) to treat a thing
according to one's own nature or according to one's own impulse; so
that fever is said to have a man, and tyrants to have their cities,
and people to have the clothes they wear.-(2) That in which a thing is
present as in something receptive of it is said to have the thing;
e.g. the bronze has the form of the statue, and the body has the
disease.-(3) As that which contains holds the things contained; for
a thing is said to be held by that in which it is as in a container;
e.
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