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of substance is that contrary qualities can be predicated of it.
          (15)   Contrary qualities cannot be predicated of anything other than substances, not even of propositions and judgements.
       6.    Quantity.
            (1)   Discrete and continuous quantity.
            (2)   Division of quantities, i. e. number, the spoken word, the line, the surface, the solid, time, place, into these two classes.
            (3)   The parts of some quantities have a relative position, those of others have not. Division of quantities into these two classes.
            (4)   Quantitative terms are applied to things other than quantity, in view of their relation to one of the aforesaid quantities.
            (5)   Quantities have no contraries.
            (6)   Terms such as ‘great’ and ‘small’ are relative, not quantitative, and moreover cannot be contrary to each other.
            (7)   That which is most reasonably supposed to contain a contrary is space.
            (8)   No quantity can be what it is in varying degrees.
            (9)   The peculiar mark of quantity is that equality and inequality can be predicated of it.
       7.    Relation.
            (1)   First definition of relatives.
            (2)   Some relatives have contraries.
            (3)   Some relatives are what they are in varying degrees.
            (4)   A relative term has always its correlative, and the two are interdependent.
            (5)   The correlative is only clear when the relative is given its proper name, and in some cases words must be coined for this purpose.
            (6)   Most relatives come into existence simultaneously; but the objects of knowledge and perception are prior to knowledge and perception.
            (7)   No primary substance or part of a primary substance is relative.
            (8)   Revised definition of relatives, excluding secondary substances.
            (9)   It is impossible to know that a thing is relative, unless we know that to which it is relative.
       8.    Quality.
            (1)   Definition of qualities.
            (2)   Different kinds of quality:
                    (
a
) habits and dispositions;
                    (
b
) capacities;
                    (
c
) affective qualities [Distinction between affective qualities and affections.]
                    (
d
) shape, &c. [Rarity, density, &c., are not qualities.]
            (3)   Adjectives are generally formed derivatively from the names of the corresponding qualities.
            (4)   Most qualities have contraries.
            (5)   If of two contraries one is a quality, the other is also a quality.
            (6)   A quality can in most cases be what it is in varying degrees, and subjects can possess most qualities in varying degrees. Qualities of shape are an exception to this rule.
            (7)   The peculiar mark of quality is that likeness and unlikeness is predicable of things in respect of it.
            (8)   Habits and dispositions as genera are relative; as individual, qualitative.
       9.    Action and affection and the other categories described.
    10.    Four classes of ‘opposites’.
                    (
a
) Correlatives.
                    (
b
) Contraries. [Some contraries have an intermediate, and some have not.]
                    (
c
) Positives and privatives.
   The terms expressing possession and privation are not the positive and privative, though the former are opposed each to each in the same sense as the latter.
   Similarly the facts which form the basis of an affirmation or a denial are opposed each to each in the same sense as the affirmation and denial