Rationality is not the difference but the principle of the difference
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If it is true that...
The term essence is sometimes predicated of the thing and sometimes denied of the thing 1 0 2and
The intentions of genus or species or difference are predicated of this signate singular 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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