summum genus
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- (logic, semantics) The genus that is not a species.
- 1827, John Huyshe, A Treatise on Logic, on The Basis of Aldrich[1]:
- Summum genus, in its strictest sense, is that all-extensive term under which every object of whatever kind may be classed, and of every one of which it may be affirmatively predicated: the word which is generally used to denote such genus is substance, or, as some call it, being. ... ; thus by ornithologist, bird would be regarded as the summum genus under which he would arrange the different subdivisions of birds ...
- 1827, John Huyshe, A Treatise on Logic, on The Basis of Aldrich[1]:
