tinction between them, as to comprehension, intension. etc.sent always and with every one, for biped is always present to man, and likewise blackness to all crows. Still they differ in that difference indeed comprehends hut is nut comprehended by species; for rational comprehends divinity and man, but accidents after a certain manner comprehend from their being in many things, yet in a certain manner arc comprehended from the subjects cot being the recipients of one accident, but of many. Besides, difference indeed does not admit of intension and remission, but accidents accept the more and less; moreover contrary differences cannot he mingled, but contrary accidents may sometimes be mingled. So many then are the points common and peculiar to difference and the others.
Chap. XV.—Of Community and Difference of Species and Property.
In what respect species diners from genus and difference, was explained in our enunciation of the way in which genus, and also difference, differ from the rest; it now remains that we should point out how it (species) differs from property and accident.1. Species and property reciprocally predicated of each other, but the one prior ot the other: further distinctions. It is common then to species and property, to be reciprocally predicated of each other, since it any thing be man, it is risible, also if it be risible, it is man, still we have frequently declared that risible must be assumed according to natural adaptation to risibility. It is also common (to them) to be equally present, for species are equally present to their participants, and properties to the things of which they are properties, but species differs from property, in that species indeed may be the genus of other things, but property cannot possibly be the property of other things. Again, species subsists prior to property, but property accedes to species, for man must exist, in order that risible may: besides, species is always present in energy with its subject, but property sometimes also in capacity, for Socrates is a man always in energy, but he does not always laugh, though he is always naturally adapted to be risible.[1] Once more, things of
- ↑ Upon the distinction between (
Greek characters) and cvva/ue, vide note ch. 13. On Interpretation, p. 75. Cf. also Ethics Nic. b. i. ch. 2; Metap. books h. vii. viii.; also Physics, lib. ii.
