The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole

Negation: The intention of genus or species is not appropriate to the essence as the essence is not signified as a whole 0 0 0

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Argument #3780e965 1 0 2

If it is true that...

Humanity is not a species, and animality is not a genus 0 0 2

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The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The nature or essence can be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that 1 0 2

Argument #86add56e 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2

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The nature or essence can be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The nature considered absolutely abstracts from every existence, though it does not exclude the existence of anything either 1 0 2

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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence

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Essence signifies something common to all natures through which various beings are placed in various genera and species 1 0 2 The essence of a genus and the essence of a species differ as signate from non-signate 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 species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2 The genus, as predicated of the species, includes in its signification everything that is in the species determinately 1 0 2 The 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 2 The intentions of genus or species or difference are predicated of this signate singular 1 0 2 In accidents, the genus, difference, and species are taken differently than in substances 1 0 2