The 17 fundamental genera are printed in bold capitals, and are marked with 17 capital letters. Intermediate genera and species are represented in lower case. See for instance how from concrete, corporeal, physical entities, signified by an N , animals are deduced.
The animals are subdivided into three classes—aquatic, aerial and terrestrial. At this point, however, Dalgarno adds several sub-species— viz. As far as the accidents E are concerned, see for instance how the principal passions o are classified as species of the sensitive P.
After this, we are presented with a list that is not dichotomized: admiration takes pom as its character, because P is the fundamental genus and o is the intermediate genus. It is curious that, for animals, the intermediate genus is given by the third letter in the character and the species by the second vowel, while for the accidents the opposite happens. Dalgarno acknowledges the existence of such an irregularity, without offering any explanation p.
The motive is doubtless euphony; still, there seems to have been nothing to prevent Dalgarno from assigning to the intermediate genera of concrete beings vowels instead of consonants and to the species consonants instead of vowels.
In this way, he could have used the same criterion throughout the table. The problem, however, is more complex than it seems. The same observation applies to the m in pom. Dalgarno p. At the end of the book there is indeed a philosophical lexicon giving the characters for many terms in Latin. In particular, there exists at the end of this list a special section devoted to concrete physical objects. Thus is seems that a philosophical definition of final species is possible; the only difficulty is that, given the purely exemplary nature of the lexicon, Dalgarno has left the naming of a large number of species up to the speaker, who can infer it from the tables.
