Proximate and Remote Genus and Differentia
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- What is a proximate genus?
- In the book, what is human’s proximate genus?
- Which is a remote genus of human?
- What is the source answer for human and horse?
- What category best answers human and tree?
- Why is growing body not the proximate genus of human and horse?
- Which sequence runs from more specific to more general?
- What makes a genus remote?
- What is the common answer for human, tree and stone?
- Nearness and remoteness are measured relative to what?
- What is the essential role of a differentia?
- What is human’s proximate differentia in the book?
- What is the remote differentia of human?
- Why is nāṭiq a proximate differentia?
- What does ḥassās mean in this lesson?
- Why does sentient not distinguish human from horse?
- How does sentient distinguish human from tree?
- What does nāṭiq technically signify here?
- Why does a parrot’s speech imitation not make it nāṭiq?
- Why does a pre-verbal infant still belong to the human species?
- What is the basic difference between animal and rational?
- Which genus is nearer to human than growing body?
- Which is human’s remote differentia, rather than its proximate genus or differentia?
- What lesson does “neighing” as a horse trait illustrate?
- What is the nearest common genus for human, horse and cow?
- Why is animal not the common genus for human, horse and tree?
- Which pairing correctly matches proximate genus and differentia of human?
- If a word applies to two species, is that enough to call it a genus?
- Why is sentient remote relative to human although it applies to human?
- Can a remote genus sometimes be the appropriate answer to a shared-essence question?
- What is missing if one answers human and horse simply with “body”?
- Why is physical distance the wrong reading of proximate?
- What does growing separating human from stone but not tree illustrate?
- What is the soundest way to answer a shared mā huwa question?
- Which statement accords with the text’s genus–differentia classification?
- How does rationality function in comparing human and cow?
- With animal intervening, what is growing body relative to human?
- Which comparison shows sentient is not the proximate human differentia?
- The source gives animal as human’s proximate genus.
- Growing body is remote for human because animal is an intervening genus.
- Sentient distinguishes human from horses and cows and is therefore proximate.
- Every distinctive trait automatically qualifies as an essential differentia.
- Nāṭiq in classical logic merely means making speech sounds.
- Growing body can be an appropriate common answer for human and tree.
- Proximate genus and proximate differentia do exactly the same job.
- Proximate or remote is interpreted relative to the species under consideration.