The Five Predicables: Differentia, Property, Common Accident, Essential and Accidental Attributes
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- Which question does a differentia answer?
- How do animal and rational differ when applied to human?
- Why does nāṭiq not merely mean making audible speech?
- Why is rational a proximate differentia of human?
- Why is sentient a remote differentia for human?
- In body → growing body → animal → human, what is the proximate genus of human?
- What is a differentia called relative to its species?
- Why is rational divisive relative to animal?
- When can the same differentia be both constitutive and divisive?
- Why does a constituent of a higher nature remain constitutive of its lower kinds?
- Why is it false that every divider of a higher genus divides every lower kind?
- Why is capable of laughter a property of human in this scheme?
- What distinction matters for the example of laughter?
- Why is rational animal an essential description while laughing animal is not?
- Why is walking a common accident relative to human?
- What do property and common accident share?
- An extrinsic feature peculiar to one species is what kind of predicable?
- Which are the five predicables?
- Which predicables are intrinsic in the broad classification?
- Why does one narrower usage restrict intrinsic to genus and differentia?
- Must every extrinsic attribute disappear quickly?
- Why is evenness a necessary accident of four?
- What distinguishes necessity of essence from necessity of existence?
- Which kind of obvious implication is illustrated by sight being conceived with blindness?
- When conceiving four and evenness yields immediate assent to their connection, which class applies?
- Why is actually writing a separable accident of a human?
- Rational is differentia and capacity for laughter is property relative to human, even though both relate to that species.
- Any characteristic dividing a higher genus must divide every subordinate species in the same way.
- A necessary concomitant must be a constituent of the subject’s essence.
- A separable accident may cease quickly or slowly; its duration does not by itself determine essential status.