privative

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• Viewing evil as the privation of good, so that humans who sinned fell away from their good, these fathers—influenced to some extent by the classical thought of ancient Greece—linked the privative idea of sin to biblical themes of the Fall.

  Academic text (2010)

• It is, strictly speaking, a "privative concept," one which considers man "stripped of all specific excellence, distinction, superiority; of all inherent pretension to be another's 'better'" (MCM, 66).

  Academic text (2001)

• The privative prefix, that princeling.

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• This privative view was only one of a number of theological descriptions that sought to elaborate on the presence of evil or sin in the world.

  Academic text (2010)

• A privative unconcealing is not quite true enough to the overdeterminacy of the mystery as giving the porosity and enabling our passio essendi as itself a conatus for the truth.

  Academic text (2017)

• One notes the privative alpha in Heidegger's a-letheia: while this might seem more like the privative infinite, there is more at play here in Heidegger; the unconcealing of truth has to be wrested from the concealed. This is true of the earlier Heidegger.

  Academic text (2017)

• One notes the privative alpha in Heidegger's a-letheia: while this might seem more like the privative infinite, there is more at play here in Heidegger; the unconcealing of truth has to be wrested from the concealed. This is true of the earlier Heidegger.

  Academic text (2017)

• The privative nature of this argument highlights what is missing from their reasoning.

• In philosophy, the concept of a privative quality emphasizes a lack rather than an attribute.

Compounds

A

alpha privative

• Specialized

9.9

Letters added to the start of a Greek word to show not or without

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