Work
Categories (Aristotle)
Overview
The Categories (Ancient Greek: Κατηγορίαι, romanized: Katēgoriai; Latin: Categoriae or Praedicamenta) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". The work is brief enough to be divided not into books, as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters.
The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to medieval writers as the Latin term praedicamenta). Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without composition or structure, thus anything that can be either the subject or the predicate of a proposition.
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Philosophers who discussed Categories (Aristotle)
- Avicenna
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Xenocrates
- Al-Farabi
- Boethius
- John Philoponus
- Aristotle
- Duns Scotus
- Porphyry of Tyre
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Albert of Saxony (philosopher)
- William of Sherwood
- Thomas of Erfurt
- Gaius Marius Victorinus
- Eudorus of Alexandria
- David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas
- Dexippus (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Quality (philosophy)
- Passion (emotion)
- Works of Aristotle
- Predicate (grammar)
- Geometry
- Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- Science
- Substance theory
- Time
- Aristotle
- Action (philosophy)
- Scholasticism
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Prior Analytics
- Organon
- Theory of categories
- Quantity
- Proposition
Place in the tradition
Part of Essentialism.