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Ideas for 'On Liberty', 'Categories' and 'Perceptual experience has conceptual content'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
16154 Aristotle gave up his earlier notion of individuals, because it relied on universals [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
     Full Idea: In 'Metaphysics' Aristotle abandons the notion of an individual which he had relied on in the 'Categories', since it presupposes that there are general things, that there are universals.
     From: report of Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE]) by Michael Frede - Individuals in Aristotle Intro
     A reaction: Ah, very illuminating. So all the way through we have a concept of individuals, first relying on universals, and then relying on hylomorphism? I suppose a bundle theory of individuals would need universals.
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
12351 Genus and species are substances, because only they reveal the primary substance [Aristotle, by Wedin]
     Full Idea: The reason Aristotle gives for calling species and genera substances is that of what is predicated only they reveal what the primary substance is.
     From: report of Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE], 02b29-37) by Michael V. Wedin - Aristotle's Theory of Substance III.6
     A reaction: Thus we should not be misled into thinking that the genus and species ARE the essence. We edge our way towards the essence of an individual by subdividing its categories.