Full Idea
We agree that nothing can be said without qualification to come from what is not, …but it may in a qualified sense. For a thing comes to be from a privation, which in its own nature is not-being - this not surviving as a constituent in the result.
Clarification
A 'privation' is an absence of something
Gist of Idea
Coming-to-be may be from nothing in a qualified way, as arising from an absence
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 191b13)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.234
A Reaction
Not sure I understand this, but it seems to say that genuine creation from nothing at all is impossible.