Of those who reject the Thomistic doctrine some few contend that it is the actual existence of any specific nature that should be conceived as individuating the latter.
Hence, too, the individual as such cannot be adequately apprehended by intellect; for all intelligible principles of reality are formal, whereas the individuating principle is material.
On the contrary, The particular conditions of any singular thing are called its individuating accidents.
Now it is clear that common nature becomes distinct and multiplied by reason of the individuating principles which come from the matter.
Angels know singulars by universal forms, which nevertheless are the images of things both as to their universal, and as to their individuating principles.
For the common nature is understood as apart from the individuating principles; whereas such is not its mode of existence outside the soul.
This appears from the fact that in all sensible species is found not only what belongs to the species, but also individuating principles added to the principles of the species.
The soul, as the prime individuating principle, and the said reserved portion of matter as an essential and radical part of the individuation, shall .
Defn: The act ofindividuating or state of being individuated; individualization.
On this surface some individuating force pulls up a portion of the water into a commencing drop.
The same energy, more fully individuating matter and itself more fully individuated, but not completely, we call the anima of animals.
In all these cases, even though the drop be nearly completed, if we remove the individuating or lifting force, the commencing drop is immediately drawn back by cohesion and refunded into the general watery surface.
