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Single Idea 16657
[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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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 Ref
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.
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[actual suggestions for structure of categories]:
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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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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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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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