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Oct 2021
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Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Bei...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On the Categories (ca. 350 BCE), which purports to describe all the types of entities that exist. We mostly talk about substances, as A's presentation raises interesting questions about, e.g. the status of the species of substance, and the rest of the categories (e.g. quality, quantity, relative) rely on substances existing. So how exactly do these other categories relate to substances, and why does A divide the world the way he does?

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