  Thus, according to Italos’ interpretation of Aristotle, the genera are incorporeal in a weak sense, since they are not strictly speaking incorporeal but depend on a body for subsisting. Indeed, this is the sense that Italos himself adopts in his understanding of the genera as incorporeal; genera are incorporeal per accidens and not per se, because they are incorporeal insofar as they are in the human soul, while at the same time they are corporeal by participation (kata methexin) insofar as they subsist in the particulars. And the genera that he has in mind in such contexts are obviously the genera in the particulars and the genera after the particulars.