This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception.
In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
So do a large number of antithetical associations, as light and darkness, heat and cold, by inverse similarity, opposite impressions reviving each other, in accordance with the positive and privativeelements of a notion.
A thought and its privative alone--that is, a quality and its negative--cannot lead to a more comprehensive thought.
The class of propositions referred to do more than this, inasmuch as they present alternative conceptions, mutually exhaustive, each the privative of the other.
The privative can help us nowhere and to nothing; the positive only can assist our reasoning.
This elevation of the privativeinto a contrary, or a contradictory, has been the bane of metaphysical reasoning.
What is this except to assert the unreality, the merely privative character, of the finite, and to resolve all into God?
The meaning of the expression "Knowledge of God" is the ascertaining the truth of His existence, and of His positive and privative attributes, as far as the human understanding can enter into these matters.
A Latin prefix having often a privative signification, as ebracteate, without bracts.
Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.
Otherwise "unbegotten" may be taken in a kind of privative sense, but not as implying any imperfection.
For absence of good can be taken in a privative and in a negative sense.
But if it be taken in a privative sense, as every privation signifies imperfection in the thing which is the subject of privation, it follows that the Person of the Father is imperfect; which cannot be.
But the absence of good, taken in a privative sense, is an evil; as, for instance, the privation of sight is called blindness.
If both the species and the genus have privative opposites, then if the privative opposite of the species be contained in the privative opposite of the genus, the species itself will also be contained in the genus; if not, not.
In other words, the relation of D to A and of C to B, is the same as it would be if the privative term injustus were substituted in place of non justus; i.
In defining the privative contrary of any term, a man cannot avoid enunciating in the definition the term of which it is the privative: but he is not allowed to define the term itself by means of its privative.
When the definiend is a Privative Term, the definition given ought to enunciate that which it is, and that of which it is the privation; also that subject in which it resides naturally and in the first instance.
A term that is privative in form may sometimes be used in the sense of mere negation, not in that of privation.
Privative Terms connote the absence of a quality that normally belongs to the kind of thing denoted, as 'blind' or 'deaf.
For there are many terms which, though positive in form, are privative in force.
Every privative attributive has, or may have, a corresponding abstract term, and the same is the case with negatives: for the absence of an attribute, is itself an attribute.
It is based upon an implied two-fold division into positive and non-positive, the latter member being subdivided into Privative and Negative.
A positive and a privative term in the same matter will always be contraries, e.
Footnote: A privative term is usually defined to mean one which signifies the absence of an attribute where it was once possessed, or might have been expected to be present, e.
A privative term, on the other hand, restricts us within a definite sphere.
We come now to a threefold division of terms into Positive, Privative and Negative.
The chief value of the division, however, and especially of the distinction drawn between privative and negative terms, is in relation to attributives.
Or, taking a privative term for our subject, Some unpractical persons are statesmen.
Positive Privative Negative according to number of meanings.
It is not true of a pair of positive and privative terms, that one or other of them must be applicable to any given subject.
A Privative Term signifies the absence of an attribute in a subject capable of possessing it, e.
If it were the design of my present undertaking to inquire into the natural causes and manner of perception, I should offer this as a reason why a privative cause might, in some cases at least, produce a positive idea; viz.
Why a privative cause in nature may occasion a positive idea.
Selfishness therefore is all positive sin in one, as want of the love of God is all privative sin in one.
Defn: In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
Logic) Defn: A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
The solution of this problem, says he, is effected by means of the “privative nature of evil.
The privative nature of evil, as it is called, is purely a figment of the brain; it is an invention of the schoolmen, which has no corresponding reality in nature.
But therein they did not venture to condemn the doctrine of the purely privative punishment of children dying without baptism, seeing it approved by the venerable Thomas Aquinas, and by other great men.
Here also it is demonstrated how the privative nature of evil should be understood.
The idea is but another form of the notion of the negative and privative character of growth already criticized; hence we shall not repeat the criticisms, but pass on to the evil consequences which flow from putting education on this basis.
Wherefore others said that by Circumcision grace is conferred, as to the privative effects of sin, but not as to its positive effects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
