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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life' and 'Powers'

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]
     Full Idea: The Stoics proposed a rather modest categorisation of Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation.
     From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 12.1
The three categories in ontology are objects, properties and relations [Molnar]
     Full Idea: The ontologically fundamental categories are three in number: Objects, Properties, and Relations.
     From: George Molnar (Powers [1998], 2 Intr)
     A reaction: We need second-order logic to quantify over all of these. The challenge to this view might be that it is static, and needs the addition of processes or events. Molnar rejects facts and states of affairs.