Human nature, considered absolutely, is properly predicated of Socrates
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The intellect invents the notion of species and attributes it to itself 1 0 2and
The universality of the form does not arise from the existence the form has in the intellect but rather from its relation to things as a likeness of such things 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
Human nature, considered absolutely, is properly predicated of Socrates 1 0 2Opposing Arguments
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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