The nature or essence cannot be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that
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Humanity is not a species, and animality is not a genus 0 0 2and
The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2Then 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 2Citations
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Essence signifies something common to all natures through which various beings are placed in various genera and species 1 0 2Essence is also called form, for the certitude of every thing is signified through its form 1 0 2Essence too is properly and truly in substances and is in accidents only in a certain way and in a certain sense 1 0 2Matter alone is not the essence of the thing 1 0 2The nature or essence can be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that 1 0 2The nature considered absolutely abstracts from every existence, though it does not exclude the existence of anything either 1 0 2The nature understood in this way is not a universal notion 1 0 2In every other thing, the thing's existence is one thing, and its essence or quiddity or nature or form is another 1 0 2Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 1 0 2Essence exists in substances composed of matter and form, where existence is both received and limited 1 0 2