also that which is neither genus, nor difference, nor species, nor property, yet is always inherent in a subject.
Chap. VI.—Of Things common and peculiar to the Five Predicates.
1. It is common to all predicables to be predicated of many: difference of their subjects of predication. Hill's Log. de spec. Prædicab. Having discussed all that were proposed, I mean, genus, species, difference, property, accident, we must declare what things are common, and what peculiar to them. Now it is common to them all to be predicated, as we have said, of many things, but genus (is predicated) of the species and individuals under it, and difference in like manner; but species, of the individuals under it; and property, both of the species, of which it is the property, and of the individuals under that species; again, accident (is predicated) both of species, and individuals. For animal is predicated of horse and ox, being species, also of this particular horse and ox, which are individuals, but irrational is predicated of horse and ox, and of particulars. Species however, as man, is predicated of particulars alone, but property both of the species of which it is the property, and of the individuals under that species as risibility both of man, and of particular men, but blackness of the species of crows, and of particulars, being an inseparable accident; and to be moved, of man and horse, being a separable accident. Notwithstanding, it is pre-eminently (predicated) of individuals, but secondarily of those things which comprehend[1] individuals.
Chap. VII.—Of the Community and Distinction of Genus and Difference.[2]
l. Genus and difference severally comprehend species.It is common to genus and difference to be comprehensive of species, for difference also comprehends species, though not all such as the genera;
- ↑ Upon Porphyry's peculiar method of predication, in some instances, we have already remarked. Mansel gives the method of expressing the definitions of the three last predicables as to predication. Cf. also Whately. b. i. sec. 3 and 2, ch. 5, sec. 2 and 3; Aquinas, Opusc.; Abelard, de Gen. et Spec.; Albert de Prædicab.
- ↑ Compare notes on Cat. 5. This and the subsequent chapters may be elucidated by what has been said before, and by reference to the common Logics.
