Meaning of infima species | Babel Free

Definitions

The narrowest of species; one that that is not a genus to anything else.

Examples

“Every infima species of the adaptation can be related unambiguously to a[n] infima species of the standard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But when Pratt gives illustrations of his claim, he selects different infimae species under the genus 'material substance'.”

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