THE EDENEUM CODEX · LOGIC
The Categories
Aristotle · Chapter I, free
The ten ways a thing can be.
The first book of the Organon begins with names. A man and his portrait are both called “animal”; a man and an ox are too, but not in the same way. Chapter I sorts every shared name into three kinds, and logic starts from there.
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Chapter I: Univocal, Equivocal and Derivative Terms
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Things are univocally named, when not only they bear the same name but the name means the same in each case—has the same definition corresponding. Thus a man and an ox are called 'animals.' The name is the same in both cases; so also the statement of essence. For if you are asked what is meant by their both of them being called 'animals,' you give that particular name in both cases the same definition.
Language serves as more than just a tool for communication - it's a gateway to understanding fundamental categories and shared characteristics. This explains why Aristotle begins his Categories by carefully examining words, expressions, and predicates. For him, understanding how language relates to reality is crucial before exploring the categories themselves (which he only outlines in Chapter 4).
- The translation · H. P. Cooke, 1938
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