Rasm nāqiṣ consists either of a remote genus plus a distinctive property (“laughing-capable body”) or the distinctive property alone (“laughing-capable”). Both retain a property but omit the proximate genus. Consequently, they are incomplete descriptive definitions, not incomplete essential definitions.
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Two forms of incomplete rasm
Definitions in Logic: Complete and Incomplete Ḥadd and Rasm
Rasm nāqiṣ consists either of a remote genus plus a distinctive property (“laughing-capable body”) or the distinctive property alone (“laughing-capable”). Both retain a property but omit the proximate genus. Consequently, they are incomplete descriptive definitions, not incomplete essential definitions.