Privative Sentence Examples

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  • Plato proceeds to explain by his principle of difference both privative and negative predicates, and also the possibility of false predication.

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  • Her name, the "Unalterable" (a- privative, and Tpbirav, to turn), indicates her function, that of rendering the decisions of her sisters irreversible or immutable.

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  • A system fulfilling this condition and free from spherical aberration is called " aplanatic " (Greek a-, privative, irXavrl, a wandering).

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