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infima species en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin infima (“lowest”) + species.

Meanings

1. The narrowest of species; one that that is not a genus to anything else.
   • So two things are pivotal in the Categories account of primary ousiai: the idea that the things that are ontologically fundamental are basic subjects, and the idea that the ontologically basic entities are instances or members of their infimae species. 2008, Michael J. Loux, Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H, page 4:
   • But when Pratt gives illustrations of his claim, he selects different infimae species under the genus 'material substance'. 2009, James Porter Moreland, The Recalcitrant Imago Dei, page 124:
   • Combining Leibniz's view about species differentiation with his view that completed individuals constitute infima species, [DM 9; N 326] yields a promising speculation as to why he might hold that any change in property of our Adam would be a different person. 1998, R. O. Savage, Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice, page 95:
   • Every infima species of the adaptation can be related unambiguously to a[n] infima species of the standard. 1993, Willem Hirs, “XV: The Use of Terminological Principles and Methods in Medicine”, in Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt Loening, editors, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, page 239:

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Antonyms

summum genus