The male semen intends to produce a complete human being, a man, but at times it does not succeed and produces a woman. A woman is, therefore, a mas occasionatus, a failed male.
Catholic philosopher and theologian
Commentary on Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals, following Aristotelian biology
c. 1260s
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