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CHAP. VI.
Of one, the same, and diverse.
a 1.1 ONe is an affection of Ens, not a substance as Pythagoras and Plato affirmed, but a Categoreme, predicated of every thing as it is Ens. To one is opposite many; by privative oppositi∣on, and therefore one is manifested by many, as indivisible by divisible, the privation by the habit. For divisible is more known to sense then indivisible, and multitude then unity. To one are re∣ferred the same, equall, like; to many, di••ers, ••••equall, unlike.
b 1.2 Things are d••verse, either by Genus or species; by genus those which have not the same matter, nor a mutuall generation; or whereof one pertaines to corruptible substance, the other to incor∣ruptible. By species, those which have the same genus. Genus is that wherein those things that are diverse are said to be the same according to substance.