Chapter 3
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We conclude our discussion of the Five Predicables by considering the two non-essential predicables of property and accident.
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As we shift from the Ten Categories to the Five Predicables, we also shift from the perspective of intension to the perspective of extension. In this lecture, we learn the vocabulary and the analytical tools necessary to understand how everything relates (in terms of extension) to the many universals that can be used to describe
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OK, we know the Ten Categories. So what? What can we do with them? But also in this lecture, we work some of the examples from pp. 72 and 76 of our text.
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In this lecture, we cover the last six of the Ten Categories.
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We continue our survey of Aristotle’s Ten Categories by looking at the three intrinsic accidents of quantity, quality, and relation.
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If you really want to know what you’re talking about, how should you go about it? How many different kinds of things are there to know about something? Aristotle wondered that too, and his answer has help up pretty well for 2500 years.