LessonsThe Five Predicables: Differentia, Property, Common Accident, Essential and Accidental AttributesQuiz

كل مقوم للعالي مقوم للسافل، كالقابل للأبعاد؛ فإنه مقوم للجسم النامي والحيوان والإنسان.
Every constitutive feature of a higher nature also constitutes its lower kinds. For example, receptivity to dimensions constitutes body and continues through growing body, animal and human.

Because a human is a kind of body, the essential constituents of body remain within the analysis of human nature. The logical inclusion runs from higher genus to subordinate species.

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What constitutes higher and lower natures

The Five Predicables: Differentia, Property, Common Accident, Essential and Accidental Attributes

كل مقوم للعالي مقوم للسافل، كالقابل للأبعاد؛ فإنه مقوم للجسم النامي والحيوان والإنسان.
Every constitutive feature of a higher nature also constitutes its lower kinds. For example, receptivity to dimensions constitutes body and continues through growing body, animal and human.

Because a human is a kind of body, the essential constituents of body remain within the analysis of human nature. The logical inclusion runs from higher genus to subordinate species.