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noun
Privative  n.  
1.
That of which the essence is the absence of something. "Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives."
2.
(Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; called also privative term.
3.
(Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.





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... of religious philosophy. Its diverse interpretations. Its mathematical expres ion[TN-1] shows that it does not relate to contradictories. But certain concrete analytic propositions, relating to contraries, do have this form. The contrary as distinguished from the privative. The Conditioned and Unconditioned, the Knowable and Unknowable are not true contradictions. The synthesis of contraries is ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton


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