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Single Idea 3311
[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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Full Idea
The Aristotelian schedule of categories - substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time, and so forth - appears to peter out inconsequentially.
Gist of Idea
The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially
Source
comment on Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE]) by José A. Benardete - Metaphysics: the logical approach Ch.7
Book Ref
Benardete,José A.: 'Metaphysics: The Logical Approach' [OUP 1989], p.42
A Reaction
Compare Idea 5544 for Kant's attempt to classify categories. Personally I like the way Aristotle's 'peter out'. That seems to me a more plausible character for good metaphysics.
Related Idea
Idea 5544
Four groups of categories of concept: Quantity, Quality, Relation and Modality [Kant]
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[actual suggestions for structure of categories]:
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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11035
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There are ten basic categories for thinking about things
[Aristotle]
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12347
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The immediate divisions of that which is are genera, each with its science
[Aristotle]
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12267
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There are ten categories: essence, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, activity, passivity
[Aristotle]
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16652
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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation
[Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
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20824
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Stoics have four primary categories: substrates, qualities, dispositions, relative dispositions
[Stoic school, by Simplicius]
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16657
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Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three
[Henry of Ghent]
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12993
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Have five categories - substance, quantity, quality, action/passion, relation - and their combinations
[Leibniz]
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7533
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The Theory of Description dropped classes and numbers, leaving propositions, individuals and universals
[Russell, by Monk]
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14163
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Four classes of terms: instants, points, terms at instants only, and terms at instants and points
[Russell]
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13120
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Chisholm divides things into contingent and necessary, and then individuals, states and non-states
[Chisholm, by Westerhoff]
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16526
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Animal classifications: the Emperor's, fabulous, innumerable, like flies, stray dogs, embalmed….
[Wiggins]
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11929
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The three categories in ontology are objects, properties and relations
[Molnar]
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6529
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I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics
[Lycan]
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7683
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Logic is based either on separate objects and properties, or objects as combinations of properties
[Jacquette]
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7684
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Reduce states-of-affairs to object-property combinations, and possible worlds to states-of-affairs
[Jacquette]
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2401
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All facts are either physical, experiential, laws of nature, second-order final facts, or indexical facts about me
[Chalmers]
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8284
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The top division of categories is either abstract/concrete, or universal/particular, or necessary/contingent
[Lowe]
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13122
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Lowe divides things into universals and particulars, then kinds and properties, and abstract/concrete
[Lowe, by Westerhoff]
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4196
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The main categories of existence are either universal and particular, or abstract and concrete
[Lowe]
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8458
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Just individuals in Nominalism; add sets for Extensionalism; add properties, concepts etc for Intensionalism
[Orenstein]
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13123
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All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events
[Westerhoff]
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