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Those things are said to be 'other in genus' whose proximate
substratum is different, and which are not analysed the one into the
other nor both into the same thing (e.g. form and matter are different
in genus); and things which belong to different categories of being
(for some of the things that are said to 'be' signify essence,
others a quality, others the other categories we have before
distinguished); these also are not analysed either into one another or
into some one thing.
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'The false' means (1) that which is false as a thing, and that (a)
because it is not put together or cannot be put together, e.g. 'that
the diagonal of a square is commensurate with the side' or 'that you
are sitting'; for one of these is false always, and the other
sometimes; it is in these two senses that they are non-existent. (b)
There are things which exist, but whose nature it is to appear
either not to be such as they are or to be things that do not exist,
e.g. a sketch or a dream; for these are something, but are not the
things the appearance of which they produce in us. We call things
false in this way, then,-either because they themselves do not
exist, or because the appearance which results from them is that of
something that does not exist.
(2) A false account is the account of non-existent objects, in
so far as it is false. Hence every account is false when applied to
something other than that of which it is true; e
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