"There are, he says, three principles: Matter, Form, and Privation. In every phenomenon we can distinguish the substance and its form; but as the form can only be one of two Contraries, and as only one of these two can exist at each moment, we are forced to admit the existence of a third principle—Privation—to account for the contrary which is absent. Thus a man must be either a musician or a non-musician; he cannot be both at the same time; and that which prevents his being one of these is the privation of the form."
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Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science
Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science, including Analyses of Aristotle's Scientific Writings was written by George Henry Lewes and published in 1864.
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