An accident, in metaphysics and philosophy, is a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.
A genus–differentia definition is a type of intensional definition, and it is composed of two parts: a genus : An existing definition that serves as a portion of the new definition; all definitions with the same genus are considered members of that genus.
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