the essential universal common to species that differ in their specific realities
General Technical Meaning
In logic, a genus is a universal predicated, in answer to ‘What is it?’, of many things that differ in specific reality. It is their shared essential part and remains indeterminate until a differentia determines it.
In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works
Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt
genus — explanation
Here, jins means genus in a classificatory sense. The passage contrasts what belongs to a species with preparatory factors that may be congeneric or belong to another genus.
Limits of this account
It does not establish the treatise’s teleological inference or the identity of any particular genus.
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