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Describe EJ Lowe's ontology
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Lowe defends a neo-Aristotelian ontology consisting of four irreducible categories of being: (1) substances (or enduring objects); (2) kinds (which are instantiated by enduring objects and which more or less correspond to Aristotle's secondary substances, e.g., horseness); (3) attributes (which characterize enduring objects but cannot be said to be instantiated by them, e.g., greenness); and (4) tropes (which Lowe calls modes [of enduring objects]). Thus, Lowe's ontology includes two categories of universals, kinds and attributes, and two categories of particulars, objects and their modes. However, Lowe is skeptical of the existence of facts.
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