The Accidental Predicables.

Question 1

What differentiates the accidental predicables from the essential ones?

Answer 1

The accidental ones don’t say something necessary about the subject. They are contingent. [The object could lack the accidental predicable and still be the object in question.]

Question 2

Define property.

Answer 2

That universal which is said of its inferior nonessentially, but which follows from its inferior necessarily and exclusively.

Question 3

What is the difference between a specific property and a generic property?

Answer 3

Specific properties belong to a species and a species only. Generic properties belong to a genus and a genus only.

Question 4

Define Accident.

Answer 4

Universals said of an inferior nonessentially, and without necessity or exclusively.

Question 5

What are the three types of accidents?

Answer 5

Wholly separable, partially separable, and wholly inseparable.

Question 6

What is a wholly separable accident?

Answer 6

An accident which either may or may not be the case with the inferior at any given moment.

Question 7

What is a partially separable accident?

Answer 7

An accident which is separable from the species of the subject, but not separable from individuals within the species.

Question 8

What is a wholly inseparable accident?

Answer 8

An accident that is shared with all other members of the species. [It can be shared with other species as well, distinguishing it from a property.