Aula Scholastica 

On genus. It has been said that genus is predicated in what incompletely, and does not constitute the complete essence; is genus, then, a part of the species?Response. 1° Genus is not an actual part of the species. An actual part is one which is contained actually under the whole; thus the hand is an actual part of the human body. But an actual part is not predicated of the whole — for we do not say “Man is a hand” or “a forearm.” But genus is rightly predicated of the specie

On transcendentals. Having explained the notion of univocal and analogical, we must now treat of the principal analogical and univocal concepts — namely, the Transcendentals and the Universals. A transcendental is said to be that which is above every genus and every species. It is defined as: that which belongs, at least in some way, to all and each of the things that are or can be. Six transcendentals are enumerated: thing (res), being (ens), one (unum), something (aliquid),

On univocals. The principal division of the distributive concept is into univocal and analogical. Since this division is of the greatest importance in philosophy, we must now treat more fully of univocals and analogicals. Univocal terms (synonyma) are those whose name is common and whose meaning signified by the name is simply the same: Peter is a man, Paul is a man — here the name is common to both, and the nature signified by the name is simply the same in Peter and Paul. T