Note 7

With the expression

animal '  signifies, as an individual or undivided nature, each thing that  ' man '  signifies as an individual nature,

we mean :

The term  ' animal '  refers to each thing as referring to an individual or undivided nature, as does the term  ' man '  to certain of those same things (that is, the term  ' man '  refers to a subset of the set of the individual things to which the term  ' animal '  refers, and it does so in the same way).

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