Both are Accidents, in the wider sense in which the accidents of a thing are opposed to its essence; though, in the doctrine of the Predicables, Accidens is used for one sort of accident only, Proprium being another sort.
Those who contend that both members of the Antiphasis are at once true disallow Essentia altogether, and the distinction between it and Accidens (p.
Contraposition may also be applied to the E proposition by the use of conversion per accidens in the place of simple conversion.
From A again an inference can be drawn in the reverse order of conversion per accidens followed by permutation-- All A is B.
The reason why A can only be converted per accidens is that, being affirmative, its predicate is undistributed (ยง 293).
The intermediate link between the above two propositions is the converse per accidens of the first--'Some B is A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accidens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
