being mistaken or deluded are privations of knowledge and therefore not powers in and of themselves
It is not even fair to call what most people operate by "knowledge". A Napoleon or a Jeff Bezos might have knowledge. A rock rolling down a hill has no knowledge.
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You can't call ignorance a privation on knowledge because ignorance is a mechanism that defines the whole creature and thus excludes knowledge
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Thomas Aquinas literally addresses precisely this in his Principles of Nature (difference between per se and per accidens), but, if you forgive my seeming condescension, a better place to start would be an introduction to Thomism, perhaps Edward Feser
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