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24 Cards in this Set
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Link the question with the Category What is it? |
Substance (e.g., man, horse) |
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Link the question with the Category How large? |
Quantity (e.g., four-foot, five-foot) |
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Link the question with the Category Of what kind? |
Quality (e.g., white, grammatical) |
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Link the question with the Category Related to what? |
Relation (e.g., double, half) |
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Link the question with the Category Where? |
Place (e.g., in the Lyceum, in the market) |
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Link the question with the Category When? |
Date (e.g., yesterday, last year) |
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Link the question with the Category How situated? |
Posture (e.g., is lying, is sitting) |
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Link the question with the Category Having what/Being how? |
State (e.g., has shoes on, he is armed) |
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Link the question with the Category What does it do? |
Action (e.g., cutting, burning) |
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Link the question with the Category What is done to it? |
Passion (e.g., being cut, being burned) |
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On Subjects & Predicates A subject is... |
what a statement is about. |
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On Subjects & Predicates A predicate is... |
what a statement says about its subject. |
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On Subjects & Predicates Can the same thing be both a subject and a predicate? |
Yes, Examples: 1.This (particular animal) is a man. [Man is a predicate] 2.Man is an animal. [Man is a subject] However, Some things are subjects but are never predicates: We say: This is a man. But not: This is a Plato. |
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Two Kinds of Predication What is the essential predication? |
The Said Of a subject Examples: Man is said of Socrates. Colour is said of white. |
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Two Kinds of Predication What is the accidental(non-essential) predication? |
The Present In a subject Aristotle says, present in belongs “not as a part, and cannot exist separately from what it is in” (1a24). Examples: Non-substances are present in substances. This grammatical knowledge is present in a soul. This white is present in a body. |
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Universals and Particulars What is a Universal? |
A universal is what is said of some subject |
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Universals and Particulars What is a Particular? |
A particular is what is not said of any subject. |
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4-Fold Division AB CD (a) SAID OF a subject not PRESENT IN a subject (E.g. man, horse, animal) |
Universal Substance (“secondary substances”) |
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4-Fold Division AB CD (b) SAID OF a subject PRESENT IN a subject (E.g. knowledge, white) |
Universal non-Substances |
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4-Fold Division AB CD (c) not SAID OF a subject not PRESENT IN a subject (E.g. this man, this horse) |
Individual Substances/ Particular substances (“primary substances”) |
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4-Fold Division A B C D (d) not SAID OF a subject PRESENT IN a subject (E.g. this knowledge of grammar, this white) |
Individual non-Substances |
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Some metaphysical distinctions What is the ultimate subject of predication? |
The ultimate subject of predication is the particular – the primary substance. |
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Some metaphysical distinctions What is the essence/definition of each thing? |
The essence/definition of each thing are the universals/genera ‘said of’ it. |
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Some metaphysical distinctions What is the primary being? |
The primary being is the thing itself; in later work, Aristotle will say that the primary being is the essence of that thing. |
