Single Idea 16657

[catalogued under 7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories]

Full Idea

Among creatures there are only three 'res' belong to the three first categories: Substance, Quantity and Quality. All other are aspects [rationes] and intellectual concepts with respect to them, with reality only as grounded on the res of those three.

Clarification

'res' is Latin for a 'thing'

Gist of Idea

Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three

Source

Henry of Ghent (Quodlibeta [1284], VII:1-2), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 12.3

Book Reference

Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.232


A Reaction

Pasnau connects with the 'arrangement of being', giving an 'ontologically innocent' structure to reality. That seems to be what we all want, if only we could work out the ontologically guilty bit.