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The word 'category' (Latin ''praedicamentum'') is from the Greek word for 'predicate'. A category is whatever can be expressed without composition. According to Aristotle, there are only ten kinds of thing that can be predicated. Thus the ''Categories'' places every possible thing that can be thought under one of these ten categories (known to medieval writers as the ''praedicamenta'' or ''generalissima'').
The word 'category' (Latin ''praedicamentum'') is from the Greek word for 'predicate'. A category is whatever can be expressed without composition. According to Aristotle, there are only ten kinds of thing that can be predicated. Thus the ''Categories'' places every possible thing that can be thought under one of these ten categories (known to medieval writers as the ''praedicamenta'' or ''generalissima'').
The text begins with an explanation of "[[synonymous]]," or univocal words, what is meant by "[[homonym]]ous," or equivocal words, and what is meant by "[[paronymous]]," or denominative words. Language is either simple, without composition or structure, such as "man," "horse," "fights," etc, or it has composition and structure, such as "a man fights," "the horse runs," etc. Next, he distinguishes between a subject of ''[[Predicate (logic)|predication]]'', namely that of which anything is affirmed or denied, and a subject of ''inhesion''. A thing is said to be inherent in a subject, when, though it is not a part of the subject, it cannot possibly exist without it, e.g., shape in a thing having a shape.
The text begins with an explanation of "[[synonymous]]," or univocal words, what is meant by "[[homonym]]ous," or equivocal words, and what is meant by "[[paronymous]]," or denominative words. Language is either simple, without composition or structure, such as "man," "horse," "fights," etc., or it has composition and structure, such as "a man fights," "the horse runs," etc. Next, he distinguishes between a subject of ''[[Predicate (logic)|predication]]'', namely that of which anything is affirmed or denied, and a subject of ''inhesion''. A thing is said to be inherent in a subject, when, though it is not a part of the subject, it cannot possibly exist without it, e.g., shape in a thing having a shape.
Of all the things that exist,
Of all the things that exist,