think that a nature found in many things, like human, giraffe, or even being is not just something real, but something divine, a cause for all the things that partake of it. One author of the time compared the relation between the species human and individual humans to the relation between the roots of a tree and its branches. John Marenbon, one of the few scholars to work with these glosses, has coined the term “hyper-realism” for this idea that a general nature is not just real but expresses its reality in the individuals that partake of it. Hyper-realism is, in effect, the logical version
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