The essence of a composite thing is the composite thing itself, even if the essence is composite
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The 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 2and
The genus, as predicated of the species, includes in its signification everything that is in the species determinately 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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