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    It is not the case that Extension is not an accident but an essential and inseparable differentia of 'the three-dimensional'.

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    • 1.Aristotle's Categories distinguishes essential properties from accidental ones by genus-species relations, not by inseparability alone.
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    • 2.Extension can be inseparable from body without being a differentia, since inseparability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for differentiae.
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    • 3.Porphyry's Isagoge establishes that inseparable accidents (e.g., the crow's blackness) remain accidents despite their necessary co-presence with a subject.
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    • 1.The analogy between heat-fire and extension-body fails because heat individuates fire within a genus, whereas extension is predicated universally across all corporeal genera.
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    • 2.Aquinas argues in De Ente et Essentia that quantitative extension follows from matter as a principle of individuation, making it a consequent property rather than a constitutive differentia.
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    • 3.A genuine differentia must restrict a genus to a species, but extension does not restrict 'the three-dimensional' to any species—it exhausts the genus entirely, collapsing the differentia-genus distinction.
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    • 1.If extension were an accident belonging to the Aristotelian category of quantity, it would require a distinct underlying subject.
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    • 2.Heat is an essential and inseparable differentia of fire, not an accident of it.
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    • 3.Whiteness is an essential and inseparable differentia of snow, not an accident of it.
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