The notion of species pertains to human nature according to the existence human nature has in the intellect
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If it is true that...
The nature considered absolutely abstracts from every existence, though it does not exclude the existence of anything either 1 0 2and
The nature understood in this way is not a universal notion 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
The notion of species pertains to human nature according to the existence human nature has in the intellect 1 0 2Opposing Arguments
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Argument #92d7cd59 1 0 2
If it is true that...
The nature understood in this way is not a universal notion 1 0 2and
The notion of species pertains to human nature according to the existence human nature has in the intellect 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
Human nature has in the intellect existence abstracted from all individuals 1 0 2Mentions
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 2The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2The 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 2Humanity is not a species, and animality is not a genus 0 0 2The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 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 2Human nature has in the intellect existence abstracted from all individuals 1 0 2The intellect invents the notion of species and attributes it to itself 1 0 2Human nature, considered absolutely, is properly predicated of Socrates 1 0 2