To be in a state of 'possession' is, it appears, the opposite of being in a state of 'privation', just as 'positives' and 'privatives' themselves are opposite.
Similarly blindness is not said to be blindness of sight, but rather, privation of sight.
There may be a change from possession to privation, but not from privation to possession.
For 'Socrates has sight' is the opposite of 'Socrates is blind' in the sense of the word 'opposite' which applies to possession and privation. Now if Socrates exists, it is not necessary that one should be true and the other false, for when he is not yet able to acquire the power of vision, both are false, as also if Socrates is altogether non-existent.
I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous: under the vague dullness of the grey hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the
privation of an untried good.
They said it was responsibility of HESCO officers to make available alternate transformers but they have failed to perform their duties landing business community in
privations causing closure of business.
He said it was responsibility of Hesco officers to make available alternate transformers but, alas, they failed to perform their duties landing business community in
privations causing closure of business.
Of those who hold the reins of government, he wrote: 'If those who guide the destinies of the Philippines should, instead of granting the reforms that are dem and ed, continue to erode the state of the country, exacerbate the hardships and repressions of the suffering and thinking classes, they will succeed in making them risk a troubled life, full of
privations and bitterness, for the hope of obtaining something uncertain.
Sans surprise, les
privations s'etendent aux domaines du logement et de la sante.
Les
privations diverses et des inegalites "ont explose au Maroc", les defaillances a differents niveaux aussi, selon une enquete de l'Unicef portant sur la pauvrete multidimensionnelle des enfants de "plus en plus laisses pour compte" notamment dans les regions rurales que compte le pays, ou quatre enfants sur dix sont dans une situation de pauvrete.
She not only presents evidence and arguments in support of negative Forms but also takes issue with the common objection that negative Forms (e.g., the bad, the ugly, the unjust) are nothing more than
privations of positive ones (e.g., the good, the beautiful, the just).
73, 7th prem.), was their regarding
privations of habitus (a[??]dam al-malakat/he[??]dere ha-qinyanim; e.g., blindness is the
privation of sight) as accidents that God created continuously in a body.
ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Privations Senator Ishaq Dar on Friday said that federal government has allocated Rs 188 billion for construction of roads, highways and bridges which is an increase of about 18 percent as compared to last year.
SIR - I was interested to read the contribution of Tom Jones (Letters, April 20), an old Splott boy who as a child survived the
privations of World War II.
