Kitap 5
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We speak of privation: (a) In one sense, if a thing does not possess an attribute which is a natural possession, even if the thing itself would not naturally possess itThis is not a proper sense of privation, as Aristotle implies by choosing an example from everyday speech.; e.g., we say that a vegetable is deprived of eyes. (b) If a thing does not possess an attribute which it or its genus would naturally possess. E.g., a blind man is not deprived of sight in the same sense that a mole is; the latter is deprived in virtue of its genus, but the former in virtue of himself.i.e., a mole is blind as being a member of a blind genus, whereas a man is blind only as an individual. Of course moles are not really blind, but we still speak as though they were.
