Metafizik Şerhi: Formlar ve Sayılar

Regarding these matters, even the image-like kinds and forms used by the dialecticians show clear signs of the truth. For wherever the species is found, the genus is also found, since the species is said to exist within the genus as a whole. However, the genus is found in many other things as well, reaching further than the classification of the species is naturally able to go. If you shift your perspective, then, from the act of being said of certain things to the act of creative production, you will cross over from these mere images to the true Genera and Forms. You will then behold their arrangement toward one another, their superiority and subordination, and the overall rank of each. Most of all, one must seek and investigate Number itself.