Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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What Is the Meaning of Being an Entity?
Aristotle was thinking more generally, it was just substance farm. And the more general you get, you effectively get to tertiary and quartenary substances. So aristotle is asking a very deep question of what it could ever mean to say that something is an entity. The only thing that can be rigidly designated is a natural kind. Which is another way of saying that it does not admit of contraries in those respects. We've said substance is by far the most important one. But if you wan to hear that, you will have to listen to part two of the discussion.
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