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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“The man who has become blind does not regain his sight; the man who has become bald does not regain his hair; the man who has lost his teeth does not grow a new set”
Categories, Part 10, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
Aristotle's illustration that change runs from possession to privation but not back, which distinguishes privatives from contraries such as health and sickness.
Citation: "The man who has become blind does not regain his sight; the man who has become bald does not regain his hair; the man who has lost his teeth does not grow a new set" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 10, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q10)
