On Aristotle's "Categories 1-4"
On Aristotle's

Author: Simplicius (of Cilicia.)

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781472552167

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"Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories' is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance?--under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4

Author: Simplicius,

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1472501071

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Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things.

On Aristotle's "Categories 1-4"
On Aristotle's

Author: Simplicius (of Cilicia.)

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781472500502

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"Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories' is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance?--under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

On Aristotle's "Categories 1-4"
On Aristotle's

Author: Simplicius

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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"Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony in most things."-- Publisher description.

The Categories
The Categories

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-11-20

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 3368431323

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Reproduction of the original.

Aristotle's Categories in the Early Roman Empire
Aristotle's Categories in the Early Roman Empire

Author: Michael James Griffin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 019872473X

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This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories, and illuminates the earliest arguments for Aristotle's approach to logic as the foundation of higher education.

Aristotle's Theory of Substance
Aristotle's Theory of Substance

Author: Michael Vernon Wedin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0199253080

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Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are Categories and the central books of Metaphysics. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1
Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Author: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1780938721

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Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since Aristotle by the rival Stoic school.