Assertion: privation | /r/HasProperty | incidental
Facets:
value: with emphasis on its relationship
type: OTHER
value: from the aristotelian-thomistic viewpoint
type: OTHER
value: as a principle of change
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Although privation is incidental, it is not contingent, for while it may be contingent that a subject have this particular form, or be deprived of it, it is still necessary that it be in one state or the other.
text: Finally, privation is an accidental principle insofar as it neither enters intrinsically into the thing produced (perfect act) nor into the motion toward that product (imperfect act).
text: Primary matter and its form are essential principles of change, while privation is an incidental principle.
text: Privation is here considered from the Aristotelian-Thomistic viewpoint as a principle of change and of changeable being, with emphasis on its relationship to matter, its role in Aristotle's astronomical theory, its ontological status, and its causality.
text: Although privation is an incidental principle of change, in that substantial change proceeds from the privation of form, it is difficult to see how causality can be attributed to nonbeing.