it is possible to heat in a greater or less degree; also to be
heated in a greater or less degree. Thus action and affection
also admit of variation of degree. So much, then, is stated with
regard to these categories.

We spoke, moreover, of the category of position when we were
dealing with that of relation, and stated that such terms derived
their names from those of the corresponding attitudes.

As for the rest, time, place, state, since they are easily
intelligible, I say no more about them than was said at the
beginning, that in the category of state are included such states
as 'shod', 'armed', in that of place 'in the Lyceum' and so on,
as was explained before.

Part 10

The proposed categories have, then, been adequately dealt with.
We must next explain the various senses in which the term
'opposite' is used. 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.

Let me sketch my meaning in outline. An instance of the use of
the word 'opposite' with reference to correlatives is afforded by
the expressions 'double' and 'half'; with reference to contraries
by 'bad' and 'good'. 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