CHAP. IV. Of Difference.
DIfference is threefold.
- 1 Common which is some seperable Acci∣dent that doth distinguish one thing from another, as white, to walk, and doth belong to the fifth predicable: It is called Difference as it makes to differ, and an Accident because it is inherent.
- 2. Proper, which is either an inseperable Accident, in the fifth predicable, or a proper Accident in the fourth predicable, as Quantity, Risibility.
- 3. Most proper, by which one thing doth differ from another essentially: and this is that Difference which belongs to this third predicable.
In which we are to consider three things.
First what this Difference is, and it may be defined three ways.
- 1. Difference is an universal, by which one Species is essentially distinguished from another: