Keep this conceptual hierarchy in mind: human → animal → growing body → body. The arrows do not describe physical transformation. They show movement from a narrower essential category to broader ones. Every upward step covers additional types of things, while giving fewer distinguishing details about the original species.
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An expanding hierarchy of essential concepts
Mā Huwa: Asking What a Thing Is
Keep this conceptual hierarchy in mind: human → animal → growing body → body. The arrows do not describe physical transformation. They show movement from a narrower essential category to broader ones. Every upward step covers additional types of things, while giving fewer distinguishing details about the original species.