Qnoma?...definition

[Paul Younan]

Akhi Michael,

I was researching this and I found the following definition for Qnoma by Mar Bawai the Great (6th c., head of Mar Abraham monastery on Mount Izla and later Patriarch), in his Book of the Union, Memra IV:

(a) A particular nature which has been individuated but not independently personalized
(b) As a specific exemplar of that which is common to a general classification or species ??? that which moves from an abstract generalization to a concrete example;
© As a set of natural properties (as opposed to distinguishing accidents) as they exist in an individual.