When calling a concept essential or accidental, complete the question: essential or accidental with respect to whose essence? A word considered in isolation may not fix the relation being tested.
'Animal' is essential relative to humans in the source's definition.
'Learned' is accidental relative to human nature.
This relational discipline matters in the later analysis of genus, species, differentia, property, and common accident.
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Essence, Quiddity, and Essential vs Accidental Universals
When calling a concept essential or accidental, complete the question: essential or accidental with respect to whose essence? A word considered in isolation may not fix the relation being tested.
'Animal' is essential relative to humans in the source's definition.
'Learned' is accidental relative to human nature.
This relational discipline matters in the later analysis of genus, species, differentia, property, and common accident.