Category

For Wikipedia category uses, see Wikipedia:Categorization.

Categories, in Philosophy, are the ultimate kinds by which things, or substances, are classified.

Aristotle

Aristotle, in his work by the same title, Categories, gives the following ten categories:

• Substance
• Quantity
• Quality
• Relation
• Place
• Date
• Posture
• State
• Action
• Passion

Kant

Kant gives the following twelve categories:

• Quantity
  • Unity
  • Plurality
  • Totality
• Quality
  • Reality
  • Negation
  • Limitation
• Relation
  • Inherence and Subsistence (substance and accident)
  • Causality and Dependence (cause and effect)
  • Community (reciprocity)
• Modality
  • Possibility
  • Existence
  • Necessity

External Link

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Categories [1]

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