Aristotle claims that the "substance of each thing is that which is peculiar to it, which does not belong to anything else." However, that which is such as to belong to more than one thing (what several things have in common) is called the ...

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The term that Aristotle uses to refer to something that belongs to more than one thing is "universal". This is crucial in his theory of categories, where he tries to distinguish between the essential qualities that are unique to a particular substance and the accidental qualities that are not essential to it. The universal, by contrast, is a feature that can be found in many substances and can be used to identify them as belonging to a certain category or class.

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