Categories
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(pl.) of Category
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Either classes under which all our Notions of things may be grouped, or classes under which all our Thoughts of things may be grouped; the former called Logical, we owe to Aristotle, and the latter called Metaphysical, we owe to Kant. The Logical, so derived, that group our notions, are ten in number: Substance or Being, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Position, Possession, Action, Passion. The Metaphysical, so derived, that group our thoughts, are twelve in number: as regards quantity , Totality, Plurality, Unity; as regards quality , Reality, Negation, Limitation; as regards relation , Substance, Accident, Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction; as regards modality , Possibility and Impossibility, Existence and Nonexistence, Necessity and Contingency. John Stuart Mill resolves the categories into five, Existence, Co-existence, Succession, Causation, and Resemblance.
