infima species
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The narrowest of species; one that that is not a genus to anything else.
Example Sentences
- "Every infima species of the adaptation can be related unambiguously to a[n] infima species of the standard."
- "Combining Leibniz's view about species differentiation with his view that completed individuals constitute infima species, [DM 9; N 326] yields a promising speculation as to why he might hold that any change in property of our Adam would be a different person."
- "So two things are pivotal in the Categories account of primary ousiai: the idea that the things that are ontologically fundamental are basic subjects, and the idea that the ontologically basic entities are instances or members of their infimae species."
- "But when Pratt gives illustrations of his claim, he selects different infimae species under the genus 'material substance'."