SUCHNESS IS LATER THAN BEING AND QUIDDITY.

2. Let us now consider what quality in general is; for when we shall

know this, our doubts will cease. First, must it be admitted that one

and the same thing is now a quality, and then a complement of being?

Can one say that quality is the complement of being, or rather of such

a being? The suchness of being implies a previously existing being and

quiddity.

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