The definition or the species signifies the whole
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The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2and
Similarly, the difference also signifies the whole and does not signify the form alone 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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The essence of a genus and the essence of a species differ as signate from non-signate 1 0 2The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2The genus is taken from the matter as signifying the whole 1 0 2The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2The nature of the species is indeterminate with respect to the individual just as the nature of the genus is with respect to the species 1 0 2The genus, as predicated of the species, includes in its signification everything that is in the species determinately 1 0 2The designation of species with respect to the genus is through form, and the designation of the individual with respect to the species is through matter 1 0 2The intentions of genus or species or difference are predicated of this signate singular 1 0 2Humanity is not a species, and animality is not a genus 0 0 2The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2