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The Stoics' Division Into Four Categories
The Stoics assign the first rank to substances and place matter before the other substances. They reduce to a single class both anterior and posterior things though it be impossible to combine them in this manner. When they count but a single substance they do not enumerate the beings themselves but they seek their principles. The category of something common is absurd.