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al-nawʿ
النَّوْع
A (nawʿ) is a of many things that agree in their , in answer to the question “what is it?”
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Explanation
Asked about Zayd and ʿAmr, “what are they?”, the answer is “human”: their whole shared .
Also written as: naw, nau, species.
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وَإِمَّا مَقُولٌ فِي جَوَابِ: مَا هُوَ، بِحَسَبِ الشَّرِكَةِ وَالْخُصُوصِيَّةِ مَعًا، كَالإِنْسَانِ بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَى زَيْدٍ وَعَمْرٍو وَهُوَ النَّوْعُ، وَيُرْسَمُ بِأَنَّهُ كُلِّيٌّ مَقُولٌ عَلَى كَثِيرِينَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ بِالْعَدَدِ دُونَ الْحَقِيقَةِ فِي جَوَابِ: مَا هُوَ؛or it is said in answer to “what is it?” by what is shared and specific together, like “human” relative to Zayd and ʿAmr: this is the species, described as a universal said of many that differ in number, not in reality, in answer to “what is it?”;Examples
- الإِنْسَان“human”, said of Zayd and ʿAmr
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Question 1
A species (nawʿ) is a universal predicated of many things that…
The is said of things that share one , such as Zayd and ʿAmr, and it answers the question “what is it?”.
Question 2
Asked about Zayd and ʿAmr, “what are they?”, which answer gives their whole shared reality?
الإِنْسَانُ
“Human” is the of Zayd and ʿAmr: it gives their whole shared . “Animal” is only part of it, and “walking” is not part of it at all.
Question 3
In the matn's description of the species, how do Zayd and ʿAmr differ?
The matn describes the as said of many that differ in number, not in : Zayd and ʿAmr are two individuals of one reality, human.
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