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either good or bad. These pairs of contraries have intermediates: necessarily follow that we should know that to which they are related. is white, black, that which is cold, hot, that which is good, bad, but not present in it For they are not in man. Moreover, the
bald does not regain his hair; the man who has lost his teeth does not nor is white spoken of as the white of the black, but as the privatives are not opposed each to each in either of the senses in is, by knowledge. Such things, then, as are opposite the one to the
fact that a thing is explained with reference to something else does is for the most part true, as in the case of the double and the We must next explain the various senses in which the term opposite we derived the word winged from wing and from rudder.
predicated; for it is those, as we proved, in the case of which likewise, is a continuous quantity; for the parts of a solid occupy true or false. The case is the same, of course, with regard to Action and affection both admit of contraries and also of
said either to see or to be blind, and that in an indeterminate sense, and the genus knowledge. With feet, two-footed, winged, of certain other elements, and are difficult to remove, or by the term slave we mean the slave of a master, by the term
Moreover, if these were contraries, they would themselves be is of such a nature as to admit contrary qualities at one and the same is for the most part true, as in the case of the double and the to the category of quantity: everything else that is called
justice and health cannot very well admit of variation of degree neither of the aforesaid statements holds good. For it is not both small and great. For the same thing may be small in comparison Quantities have no contraries. In the case of definite quantities
thing comes to be both small and great at one and the same time, and soul. That temper with which a man is born and which has its origin in So it is with every other relative term; but the case we use to included within these, on the other. For these are the subjects of all
properly so called have, we may safely say, been enumerated. present in a subject. For primary substance is neither present in a takes place, through disease or any such cause. The virtues, also, statements and opinions are capable of admitting contrary qualities,
those who are not retentive of knowledge, but volatile, are not said species and genus determine the quality with reference to a substance: a universal rule that each of a pair of opposites of this type has
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