The genus is taken from the matter as signifying the whole
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The genus is taken from the matter as signifying the whole 1 0 2and
The difference is taken from the form as signifying the whole 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2Mentions
St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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