Aristotle's Categories

The category of Aristotle's things is called "ambiguous" and they have common names, but the definition corresponding to the name is different. Therefore, the actual male and the person in the picture can be called "animals", but they have common names, but because the definition corresponding to the name is different, they are all arbitrary names . His definition in the case applies only to that situation, in the sense that everyone should define each animal as an animal.

Aristotle's classification is a very important philosophical study. Not only is it the pillar of Aristotle's own philosophical theory, it has unparalleled influence on the systems of many great philosophers in the Western tradition. A series of doctrines in this category, which I call classificationism, provides a framework of Aristotle's various philosophical studies, from Aristotle's physics to time theory to metaphysics and even discussions from expansion. He refused Platonic moral philosophy in his ethics at Nikoma. Beyond his own work, Aristotle's taxonomy brought something like primitive man, porphyry, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Rock, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Higg. The attention of various philosophers such as Brentano and Heidegger differently accepts, defends, modifies and rejects their central debate.

It seems strange to quote Aquinas in articles about Aristotle's category, but I do it for two reasons. First, as Ackrill and Furth commented, Aristotle's plan was severely criticized by scholars and philosophers. But Aquinas' comments on quality shows that a truly talented translator - indeed Aristotle's interpreter is not as big as Aquinas - can satisfy many criticisms. Secondly, and more importantly, Aquinas' attention to quality category suggests its deep historical importance in one of the most important facts of the Aristotle category, ie metaphysical speculative development . In this respect, it can be compared with metaphysical 20th century quantifiers. It is difficult to imagine the analytical metaphysics of the 20th century, regardless of whether the quantifier has the final philosophical significance.