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

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Aristotle's Ontological Basicity

In aristotle, only certain kinds of properties can be contrary to a substance. We don't look at a cat and think it's an ontologically basic object - we think it's a swirling mass of molecules and atoms. But the modern scientific world view is a competing concept of substance. And berkeley even to getting to the idea of like, material substances is just something that is a self contradictory concept.

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