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The Categories (Greek Κατηγορίαι 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". [1]
Category came into use with Aristotle's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, predication, and ten categories: [23] Substance, essence – examples of primary substance: this man, this horse; secondary substance (species, genera): man, horse
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The philosophy of Aristotle is the philosophical system developed by Aristotle as outlined in the Works of Aristotle. Category:Aristotelianism is for the philosophical tradition of ideas developed based on the philosopher's work.
The Categoriae decem (Latin for "The Ten Categories"), also known as the Paraphrasis Themistiana ("Themistian Paraphrase"), is a Latin summary of Aristotle's Categories thought to date to the 4th century AD. Traditionally credited to St Augustine, it is now variously attributed to Themistius or Pseudo-Augustinus.
Aristotelianism (/ ˌ ær ɪ s t ə ˈ t iː l i ə n ɪ z əm / ARR-i-stə-TEE-lee-ə-niz-əm) is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.
An equivocation is a variation in meaning—a manifold of sign senses—such that, as Aristotle put it about names in the opening of Categories (1.1 a 1–12), "Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each." So Peirce's claim that three categories are ...