The Five Universals: Genus, Species, Differentia, Property, Common Accident

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• Which three are essential universals?
• What are the two accidental universals?
• Why is animal a genus relative to human, cow and goat?
• Relative to Zayd, Amr and Bakr, what is human?
• What distinguishes the specific natures under one genus?
• Why does human count as species?
• Why is rational the human differentia in classical logic?
• Does an infant not yet speaking refute the logical differentia rational?
• What role does animal play in rational animal?
• What role does rational play in rational animal?
• How does the book classify dahhak, capacity for laughter?
• What is the intended sense of dahhak?
• What is the correct distinction between rational and capable of laughter?
• Why does the book class mashi as common accident of humans?
• What distinguishes property from common accident?
• Which rule is correct?
• How do Zayd and human relate?
• Can one genus encompass different species?
• Which two conditions characterize differentia?
• What follows from Zayd is learned?
• A person is asleep and not laughing. What follows for the example dahhak?
• Which expression indicates an accidental feature shared by different species?
• Why does being human-specific not automatically make a feature differentia?
• A universal applies to several individuals but lies outside their essence. Which main class?
• What is a concept shared essentially by different specific natures?
• Which universal expresses the full shared specific nature of individuals?
• What is a distinctive universal that is a constituent of essence?
• Does calling walking a common accident imply everything in existence walks?
• What fundamentally distinguishes genus from common accident?
• What can differentia and property have in common?
• In the book’s pair animal, horse, what is animal relative to horse?
• Zayd and Amr have different colors. What follows?
• When classifying a concept relative to human essence, what should you ask first?
• What is the correct order for animal, human, rational?
• What is the order rational, laughter capacity, walking?
• What does an enduring yet nonessential feature teach?
• An accidental universal is distinctive of one specific nature. What is it?
• An accidental universal applies across several distinct species. What is it?
• Why are the five universals useful before the next lesson on ma huwa?
• The book places genus, species and differentia under essential universals.
• Since Zayd and Amr are distinct individuals, they must belong to different species.
• Both differentia and property can distinguish a species, but one is essential and the other accidental.
• Common accident must occur in literally every existing thing.
• The example dahhak requires every human to laugh at every moment.
• Any universal shared across kinds is automatically a genus.
• In rational animal, genus and differentia play distinct roles.