 Averroes recalls that privation exists in Prime Matter and thinks that Aristotle “perhaps wanted to say that form is predicated in both aspects of the disposition and privation existing in Prime Matter” (LC 53H TC15). Privation existing in Prime Matter is not absolute privation and Averroes adds a gradation: quodammodo, “in a certain way” because this kind of privation is “like the form of matter” (LC 53I) that never deserts matter. Averroes tells us that Aristotle will inquire later about the issue in the Book De generatione et corruptione, and Book II of the Aristotelian Coming-to-be and Passing-away explains the composition of the four elements, the forms of which are the primary contraries, i.e., the four primary qualities (Averroes [ELG]: 27). Averroes anticipates his own conclusion: The kind of privation existing in Prime Matter is such that it is never dispossessed of the primary contraries (LC 53K TC15).