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We must now say what are 'definition', 'property', 'genus', and
'accident'. |
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A 'property' is a predicate which does not indicate the
essence of a
thing, but yet belongs to that thing alone, and is predicated
convertibly of it. |
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A 'genus' is what is predicated in the category of essence of a
number of things exhibiting differences in kind. |
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An 'accident' is (i) something which, though it is none of the
foregoing - i.e. neither a definition nor a property nor a genus yet
belongs to the thing: |