E4P32S
Scholium — Part IV
Latin
Res etiam per se patet; qui enim ait album et nigrum in eo solummodo convenire quod neutrum sit rubrum, is absolute affirmat album et nigrum nulla in re convenire. Sic etiam si quis ait lapidem et hominem in hoc tantum convenire quod uterque sit finitus, impotens vel quod ex necessitate suæ naturæ non existit vel denique quod a potentia causarum externarum indefinite superatur, is omnino affirmat lapidem et hominem nulla in re convenire; quæ enim in sola negatione sive in eo quod non habent conveniunt, ea revera nulla in re conveniunt.
English (Elwes 1883)
This is also self--evident; for, if we say that white and black only agree in the fact that neither is red, we absolutely affirm that the do not agree in any respect. So, if we say that a man and a stone only agree in the fact that both are finite--wanting in power, not existing by the necessity of their own nature, or, lastly, indefinitely surpassed by the power of external causes--we should certainly affirm that a man and a stone are in no respect alike; therefore, things which agree only in negation, or in qualities which neither possess, really agree in no respect.
Modern English
This is also self-evident. Anyone who says that white and black agree only in that neither is red is flatly saying they agree in nothing at all. So too, if someone says that a stone and a human being agree only in that both are finite, powerless, unable to exist by the necessity of their own nature, or indefinitely surpassed by the power of external causes, that person is saying that a stone and a human being agree in nothing. For things that agree only in a negation, or in what they lack, agree in nothing real.