  But if both the genera after the particulars and the genera in the particulars are acquired by our mind by abstraction, does this mean that, for Italos, they are not beings? On the contrary, Italos offers a whole series of arguments to support the thesis that the genera are beings (quaestiones 3, 19, 31). For this purpose he draws what he takes to be Aristotle’s distinction between two senses of something’s being incorporeal (quaestio 8):