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Full Idea
Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal.
Gist of Idea
Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1030b28)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.183
A Reaction
This has to be a key basic distinction in any discussion of properties. But does the difference in explanation entail a difference in fundamental nature? Femaleness is structural.