usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to...
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classes/categories Category of being Categories (Aristotle) Category (Kant) Categories (Peirce) Category (Vaisheshika) Stoic categories Category mistake...
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divides Aristotle's ten categories into two sets, primary and secondary, according to whether they inhere in the subject or not: Primary categories: Substance...
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning...
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The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that...
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before it has been experienced (a priori). Following Aristotle, Kant uses the term categories to describe the "pure concepts of the understanding, which...
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of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle declared that the inquiry into...
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis (/oʊˈnæsɪs/, US also /-ˈnɑː-/; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis];...
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Organon (redirect from Aristotle's logic)
of plausibility, to Aristotle that were not known to the Peripatetics. The Categories (Latin: Categoriae) introduces Aristotle's 10-fold classification...
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and determine what substances there are, a concept that Aristotle develops in the Categories. Zeta goes on to consider four candidates for substance:...
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complement to the Categories of Aristotle, that it was usually prefixed to that treatise. Porphyry sought to show that Plato and Aristotle were in harmony...
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that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George...
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Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BCE) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and...
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Ousia (category Philosophy of Aristotle)
Aristotle explores the nature and attributes of being (ousia). Aristotle divides the things that there are, or "beings," into categories. Aristotle calls...
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the Corpus Aristotelicum, attributed to the 4th-century BC philosopher Aristotle. It is a collection of treatises or lessons that deals with the most general...
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Stoicism (redirect from Stoic categories)
Plotinus criticized both Aristotle's Categories and those of the Stoics. His student Porphyry, however, defended Aristotle's scheme. He justified this...
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older) neologism, viz. "qui(d)ditas" ("whatness"), which is a calque of Aristotle's Greek to ti esti (τὸ τί ἐστι) or "the what (it) is." Haecceity may be...
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Literary genre (section Aristotle)
Rhetoric and Poetics. Genres are categories into which kinds of literary material are organized. The genres Aristotle discusses include the epic, the tragedy...
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Aristotle's Rhetoric (Ancient Greek: Ῥητορική, romanized: Rhētorikḗ; Latin: Ars Rhetorica) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating...
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Functor (redirect from Covariance (categories))
philosophers Aristotle and Rudolf Carnap, respectively. The latter used functor in a linguistic context; see function word. Let C and D be categories. A functor...
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Four causes (redirect from Aristotle's Four Causes)
movement in nature: the material, the formal, the efficient, and the final. Aristotle wrote that "we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped...
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The tale of Phyllis and Aristotle is a medieval cautionary tale about the triumph of a seductive woman, Phyllis, over the greatest male intellect, the...
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nature) Individuation Existence of God Christology Platonic realism Categories (Aristotle) Problem of universals Metaphysics Christianity and slavery Works...
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Potentiality and actuality (redirect from Potentiality and actuality (Aristotle))
potentiality and actuality are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics...
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Aristotelian ethics (redirect from Ethics (Aristotle))
Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato which is devoted to the attempt to provide...
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Simplicius of Cilicia (category Commentators on Aristotle)
Simplicius' Commentary on the Categories: Thomas Aquinas and al-Fārābī. In: Lloyd A. Newton: Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories. Leiden 2008, pp. 9–29...
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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.; often called the Aristotelian University or University of Thessaloniki; Greek: Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο...
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Aristotelianism (redirect from Philosophy of Aristotle)
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...
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Aristotle's Theory of Universals is Aristotle's classical solution to the Problem of Universals, sometimes known as the hylomorphic theory of immanent...
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Substance theory (category Philosophy of Aristotle)
called secondary substances. — Aristotle, Categories 2a13 (trans. J. L. Ackrill) In chapter 6 of book I the Physics Aristotle argues that any change must...
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