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1. Having separately discussed all that was proposed, I mean, Species, Difference, Peculiarity, and Accident, we must show what things are common to them, and what are peculiar.
2. It is common therefore to all of them to be predicated, as we have said, of many things.
3. But Genus is predicated of the Species and individuals which are under it; and in a similar manner Difference.
4. Species is predicated of the individuals which are under it; but Peculiarity is predicated of the Species of which it is the Peculiarity, and of the individuals which are under that Species.
5. And Accident is predicated both of Species and individuals.
6. For animal is predicated of horse and ox which are Species (of it); and also of this particular horse, and that particular ox, which are individuals.
7. But the irrational is predicated of horse and ox, and of particular horses and oxen.
8. Species however, such as man, is alone predicated of particulars.
9. But Peculiarity, is predicated of the Species of which it is the Peculiarity, and of the individuals under that Species.
10. Thus, risibility is predicated of man, and of individual men.
11. But blackness is predicated of the Species of crows, and of individual crows, since it is an inseparable Accident.
12. To be moved likewise, which is a separable Accident, is predicated of man and horse.
13. Primarily, however, it is predicated of individuals; but secondarily, of those things which comprehend individuals.
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