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"Having" means (1) a kind of activity of the haver and of what he has-something like an action or movement. For when one thing makes and one is made, between them there is a making; so too between him who has a garment and the garment which he has there is a having. This sort of having, then, evidently we cannot have; for the process will go on to infinity, if it is to be possible to have the having of what we have.-(2) "Having" or "habit" means a disposition according to which that which is disposed is either well or ill disposed, and either in itself or with reference to something else; e.g. health is a "habit"; for it is such a disposition.-(3) We speak of a "habit" if there is a portion of such a disposition; and so even the excellence of the parts is a "habit" of the whole thing.