privatives

Opposites in the sense of 'privatives' and 'positives' are 'blindness' and 'sight'; in the sense of affirmatives and negatives, the propositions 'he sits', 'he does not sit'.

Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

(iii) 'privatives' and 'Positives' have reference to the same subject.

Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

'privatives' are not opposed each to each as contraries, either, is plain from the following facts: Of a pair of contraries such that they have no intermediate, one or the other must needs be present in the subject in which they naturally subsist, or of which they are predicated; for it is those, as we proved, 'in the case of which this necessity obtains, that have no intermediate.

Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

'privatives' do not belong to that class of contraries which consists of those which have no intermediate.

Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Like any field in or outside of the arts, the parallel universes of writing and publishing spin off, it seems, more than their fair share of alpha privatives, like so many unconsoled planets.

Zoo Press: A Post-Mortem : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Things are said to be opposed in four senses: (i) as correlatives to one another, (ii) as contraries to one another, (iii) as privatives to positives, (iv) as affirmatives to negatives.

Categories 2002

But privative terms in their character of privatives admit of no subdivision.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

Things are said to be opposed in four senses: (i) as correlatives to one another, (ii) as contraries to one another, (iii) as privatives to positives, (iv) as affirmatives to negatives.

Categories 2002

As difficult is it to convey a just impression of a peaceful spot, whose praise consists -- so to speak -- rather in privatives than positives; whose privilege it is to be still free, tranquil, and unmolested, in a land and in an age of ceaseless agitation, in which the rigorous virtues of our fathers are forgotten, and the land's integrity threatens to give way.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

Ex: prefix = A and E as privatives: also means from or out of.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith