Similarly, the difference also signifies the whole and does not signify the form alone

Negation: The difference does not signify the whole or does signify the form alone 0 0 0

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Argument #7db776b4 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The essence of a genus and the essence of a species differ as signate from non-signate 1 0 2

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The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

Similarly, the difference also signifies the whole and does not signify the form alone 1 0 2

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Argument #94506e40 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2

and

Similarly, the difference also signifies the whole and does not signify the form alone 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The definition or the species signifies the whole 1 0 2

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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence

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Essence is also called form, for the certitude of every thing is signified through its form 1 0 2 The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2 The definition or the species signifies the whole 1 0 2 The genus is taken from the matter as signifying the whole 1 0 2 The difference is taken from the form as signifying the whole 1 0 2 The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2 The term man signifies the essence as a whole, implicitly and indistinctly containing designation of matter 1 0 2 The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2 The universality of the form does not arise from the existence the form has in the intellect but rather from its relation to things as a likeness of such things 1 0 2 Substantial form and matter do not have complete essences individually, but together they form a complete essence 1 0 2