PRIVATION IS NONENTITY, AND ADDS NO NEW CONCEPT.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
Are matter and privation substantially identical, yet logically distinct, in this sense that privation does not signify the presence of anything, but rather its absence? That it is the negation of beings, and is synonymous with nonentity? Negation adds no attribute; it limits itself to the assertion that something is not. In a certain sense, therefore, privation is nonentity.