Note 5

Predication  in quid  is distinguished from predication  in quale quid  and from predication  in quale,  as follows :
The basis of the distinction being the difference between three modes of  signification,  namely [1] essential and absolute, [2] essential and connotative, and [3] non-essential and connotative. See also HERE in Part III about the Predicables.
[3] comprises, according to scholastic metaphysics, the proprium and the accidens. For us, however, the proprium  per se  belongs to that what it is the proprium of, except when the causal path leading  from  the genotypic cause  to  the (phenotypic) proprium is very long, because then the proprium can be replaced or erased, while the Essence of the being remains the same. So apart from this exception, the term, standing for a proprium is essential and connotative. Or, said better :  If a term signifies essentially, but connotatively (that is, signifying some essence by connoting a phenotypic effect of it) it can be predicated  per se  but still only  in quale  of a subject, that is, it belongs to the Predicable  proprium.  On the other hand, if a term signifies non-essentially and connotatively  ( = [3] ) , it can also be predicated  in quale,  but now only  per accidens,  that is, it belongs to the Predicable  accidens  (to which not only terms such as  ' white '  can belong, but also, for example, the term  ' capable of laughing '  if we want to emphasize the long causal way leading  from  the genotypic cause  to  this property [which can, as a result of this long causal way, be erased or replaced while the Essence of the being carrying this property nevertheless remains the same, that is, is unaffected by this replacement or erasion] ).
Predication of such an accidens is in fact not a proper predication, because when we say  ' man is white '  this can be denied (because man is only 'sometimes' white, in many cases he is black), and when we say  ' Socrates is tanned '  we can affirm this, but we can also deny it, referring to the same person (because Socrates is not always tanned).

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