Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Whiteness in the Thing?
You can predicate some of a subject, but they never are present in one. That's the said of and by present in i do not mean present, or is found as its parts are contained in a whole. I mean that they cannot exist as a part from that subject. With the example being the individual white is in a subject, a the body, for all, colour is in a body, but is not said of any subject. This sort of relates to english grammar, but not all that well because it seems like we say of any property, let's contrast it with properties that we really want to say are in the thing. It sounds like this is the intrinsic extrinsic
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