This anima, or animal soul, as time went on, was individuated more and more until it resembled and foreshadowed the spirit of man.
Finally, still the same energy, completely individuated as a separate entity and therefore self-conscious, capable of separate existence and therefore immortal, we call the spirit of man.
The exact nature of the relation of Deity or of the general forces of Nature to this gradually individuated portion, I do not undertake to define.
The second point in the Thomistic doctrine is that corporeal substances areindividuated by reason of their materiality.
And this is the view held by most other scholastics in regard to the individuation of accidents generally: that these, like substances, are individuated by their own total positive reality.
The formative principle, too, is individuated of itself, and not by the material principle which is really distinct from it, or by its relation to this material principle.
And even in the view that each is individuatedby its "materia signata" it is not impossible to conceive numerically distinct quantified matters allied at the same time to the same dimensions of space.
Here it is sufficient to observe that the individual nature as such has not necessarily subsistence or personality; hence it cannot be individuatedby this latter.
The individual man is this individual, human nature is thus individuated in him, by something that is essential to human nature as found in him.
We may confine our attention here to substances, assuming for the present that accidents are individuated by the individual substances in which they inhere.
The other accidents, even as they were in the substance of the bread, were individuated by means of dimensive quantity, as stated above.
Further, just as quantity is individuated by substance, so also are the other accidents.
Therefore they are not in dimensive quantity as in a subject, since every accident is individuated by its own subject.
Further, an accident is individuated by its subject.
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