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Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Blueprint Is Not Essential to the House

According to aristotle, if there is no individual thing in the world that has that missing color, that individual color does not exist. The blueprint might be a way to picture the essentiality or something. For example, animal is predicated of man, and therefore also of the individual man. If were it predicated of none of the individual men, it would not be predicated of at all. So that was stating explicitly, what merely pointing ot implicitly from the previous sentences.

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