Genus (philosophy)
In Scholastic logic a Genus is one of the Predicables. Genus is that part of a definition which is also predicable of other things different from the definiendum. A triangle is a rectilinear figure; i.e. in fixing the genus of a thing, we subsume it under a higher universal, of which it is a species.
See also
- The Five Predicables
- Differentia
- Genus–differentia definition
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