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