Definition of "proprium" []

• In Aristotelian thought, a predicable property common to all members of a kind but not constituting part of the definition of that kind. (noun)

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• "Derivative and Empirical Laws: the predication of a proprium is a derivative law, and the predication of an accident is an empirical law."
• "For man's proprium, which is his will, never acts at one with divine providence, against which it has an inborn enmity."
• "They do so when they excite the loves in man's proprium, that is, self-love, which is the love found in hell and is called the devil (as remarked above), and they do not seduce if they do not excite that love."