Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Aristotle's Substance
Aristotle says there is only one sort of thing that's completely independent, right? That's what we mean by ontologically basic, in part, is that its being can self sufficiently exist. So whereas yellow contra plato does not have its own existence, except in so fars as it is ibstantiated in a particularThere are things that do exist self sufficiently, and they're exactly what common sense tells us they are,. which is just the particular things around us. And then he's also going to talk about something called secondary substance, which is the species and genuses to which things belong - but we'll get to that later.
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