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Full Idea
'Categories' treats something's being an ultimate subject as a test for being a primary substance, but it does not treat its primary objects as complex bodies consisting of matter and form. In that case, is the composite or a feature the ultimate subject?
Gist of Idea
Is primary substance just an ultimate subject, or some aspect of a complex body?
Source
report of Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE]) by Mary Louise Gill - Aristotle on Substance Ch.1
Book Ref
Gill,Mary Louise: 'Aristotle on Substance: Paradox of Unity' [Princeton 1989], p.16
A Reaction
Gill is trying to throw light on the difference between 'Categories' and 'Metaphysics'. Once you have hylomorphism (form-plus-matter) you have a new difficulty in explaining unity. The answer is revealed once we understand 'form'.
The
41 ideas
from 'Categories'
11286
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Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication
[Politis on Aristotle]
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16116
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Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc.
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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13121
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Substance,Quantity,Quality,Relation,Place,Time,Being-in-a-position,Having,Doing,Being affected
[Aristotle, by Westerhoff]
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3311
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The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially
[Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
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16155
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Aristotle promoted the importance of properties and objects (rather than general and particular)
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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16154
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Aristotle gave up his earlier notion of individuals, because it relied on universals
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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16140
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Secondary substances do have subjects, so they are not ultimate in the ontology
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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10965
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In earlier Aristotle the substances were particulars, not kinds
[Aristotle, by Lawson-Tancred]
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16091
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Is primary substance just an ultimate subject, or some aspect of a complex body?
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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11280
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Primary being is 'that which lies under', or 'particular substance'
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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8287
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Earlier Aristotle had objects as primary substances, but later he switched to substantial form
[Aristotle, by Lowe]
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12361
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Primary substances are ontological in 'Categories', and explanatory in 'Metaphysics'
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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3315
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Aristotle denigrates the category of relation, but for modern absolutists self-relation is basic
[Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
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12349
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Only what can be said of many things is a predicable
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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21345
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Aristotle said relations are not substances, so (if they exist) they must be accidents
[Aristotle, by Heil]
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11032
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Some things said 'of' a subject are not 'in' the subject
[Aristotle]
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11033
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Predications of predicates are predications of their subjects
[Aristotle]
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11034
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The differentiae of genera which are different are themselves different in kind
[Aristotle]
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11035
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There are ten basic categories for thinking about things
[Aristotle]
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11036
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A 'primary' substance is in each subject, with species or genera as 'secondary' substances
[Aristotle]
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11037
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Colour must be in an individual body, or it is not embodied
[Aristotle]
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11038
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We call them secondary 'substances' because they reveal the primary substances
[Aristotle]
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12351
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Genus and species are substances, because only they reveal the primary substance
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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12350
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Things are called 'substances' because they are subjects for everything else
[Aristotle]
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11039
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A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit
[Aristotle]
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11837
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Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself
[Aristotle]
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1694
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Substances have no opposites, and don't come in degrees (including if the substance is a man)
[Aristotle]
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11040
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A single substance can receive contrary properties
[Aristotle]
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11041
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Some quantities are discrete, like number, and others continuous, like lines, time and space
[Aristotle]
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11042
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Parts of a line join at a point, so it is continuous
[Aristotle]
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1695
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Without extensive examination firm statements are hard, but studying the difficulties is profitable
[Aristotle]
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11043
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It is not possible for fire to be cold or snow black
[Aristotle]
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1696
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Change goes from possession to loss (as in baldness), but not the other way round
[Aristotle]
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1697
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The contrary of good is bad, but the contrary of bad is either good or another evil
[Aristotle]
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1698
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Both sides of contraries need not exist (as health without sickness, white without black)
[Aristotle]
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11044
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One is prior to two, because its existence is implied by two
[Aristotle]
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1699
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A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence
[Aristotle]
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18366
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Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence
[Aristotle]
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18367
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A true existence statement has its truth caused by the existence of the thing
[Aristotle]
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1700
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There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place
[Aristotle]
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16739
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Four species of quality: states, capacities, affects, and forms
[Aristotle, by Pasnau]
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