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Chapter IV.—Aristotle’s General Idea.
We affirm the existence of animal absolutely, not some
animal. And this animal is neither ox, nor horse, nor man, nor
god; nor is it significant of any of these at all, but is animal
absolutely. From this animal the species of all particular
animals derive their subsistence. And this animality, itself the
summum genus,806
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Compare Porphyry’s Isagoge, c. ii., and
Aristotle’s Categ., c. v. |
constitutes (the originating principle) for all animals produced in
those (particular) species, and (yet is) not (itself any one) of the
things generated. For man is an animal deriving the principle (of
existence) from that animality, and horse is an animal deriving the
principle of existence from that animality. The horse, and ox,
and dog, and each of the rest of the animals, derive the principle (of
existence) from the absolute animal, while animality itself is not any
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