The Categories by Aristotle
"The Categories" by Aristotle is a philosophical text from ancient Greece that enumerates all possible kinds of things that can be the subject or predicate of a proposition. This foundational work divides everything in human experience into ten fundamental categories, distinguishing between what can be said "of" versus "in" a subject. Aristotle explores substances, quantities, qualities, and relations, providing a framework for understanding reality that influenced medieval philosophy and sparked centuries of
debate about language, logic, and existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Aristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE |
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| Translator | Edghill, E. M. |
| Uniform Title | Categoriae. English |
| Title | The Categories |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(Aristotle) |
| Credits | Produced by Glyn Hughes. HTML version by Al Haines. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 62.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion |
| Subject | Categories (Philosophy) |
| Subject | Logic -- Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Philosophy, Ancient |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 2412 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2000 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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