Full Idea
The category of natural kinds of objects or substances should be regarded simply as a subcategory of the category of the natural kinds of processes.
Gist of Idea
Objects and substances are a subcategory of the natural kinds of processes
Source
Brian Ellis (The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism [2009], 3)
Book Reference
Ellis,Brian: 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism' [Acument 2009], p.68
A Reaction
This is a new, and interesting, proposal from Ellis (which will be ignored by the philosophical community, as all new theories coming from elderly philosophers are ignored! Cf Idea 12652). A good knowledge of physics is behind Ellis's claim.
Related Idea
Idea 12652 Concepts have two sides; they are files that face thought, and also face subject-matter [Fodor]