Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Substance?
The only things that exist are substances. Ye. There are no such things as woolly mammoth's right? So the natural kind wolly t doesn't exist either. But what dillon said, though, is wrong, because clearly he thinks the white, those adjectives, are not substances. But yet they exist. They exist as tropes, right? So there is an individual white that exists in that individual thing. And i guess that what i's going to say is they both exist as tropes and they're the universal white. Maybe that's the thing that just doesn't exist if the trope aren't there, and you don't get the universal either. Beg, so this all
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