ARISTOTLE AND THE EARLIER PERIPATETICS vol.I by Eduard Zeller, B.F.C.Costelloe 1897

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280 ARISTOTLE
METAPHYSICS 279
put. these categories and no others; and among 1 the
Of the completeness of this framework, Aristotle is'
categories themselves there is so little indication of
convinced, 1 but he nowhere tells us how he came to set
any fixed principles for their evolution 2 that we are
actuality and possibility.—Nor 8, 10, a, 35 sqq. Metaph. v. 20),
there are only three kinds of sion as those referred to in
dees it seem possible to say with he refers back with the words
motion (in the narrower sense), Categ. c. 7
; ir«5 and wore are represented
by the adverbs of place
Brentano (fie. cit. p. 82 sq.)> that ical rS,\\a 5' ois SiTJprjrai lrpirepor.
qualitative, quantitative, and
the categories are 'real concepts,' De An. i. 1, 402, a, 24: irArtpov
local (Pkys. v. 1 sq.), inasmuch and time; the last four categories
are to be looked for in the
if by this we are to understand r6Se ri Kal ovcria fy irotbv fj iroffbv ^
as that theorem is proved hy the
such concepts as designate the Kai ris &\\t] ruv StaipeBeiffuv
process of exclusion.
' Motion,' verb, for iroieiv and Traax* 1* translate
into a general concept the
common object-matter of a series Koriiyopiav. Ibid. c. 5, 410, a, 14:
Aristotle argues, does not occur
'
of experiences, such as are the ffij/iaivei yap to fi^v r6Se rt rb Be
in the categories of substance, force of the active and passive
concepts of weight, extension, iroffbv $} irotbv 4} Kai riva &Wi]v ruv
&c. . therefore only those three voices, as ttuodcu renders one side
thought, &c. For those very StatpeOeiffuv Kariyyoptuv. Anal.
categories remain.'
of the intransitive, and ex e" *ne
categories which are most frequently
and universally applied T$5e . . . Toffavrax&s \ijirr4ov
PH. /
i. 37 : rb S' {nripxetv r6Se
1
Even in the lost writings no special force of the Greek perfect.—
But, in the first place, as
such demonstration seems to
substance, quantity, quality, relation,
action, and passion-
Metaph. xii. 1 , 1069, a, 20 : irpurov
dffax&s 01 tcarriyopiai Strfpijvrai.
have occurred; otherwise the Bonitz, p. 41 sqq., fully proves,
early commentators would have Aristotle himself nowhere gives
designate merelyformal relations, 7j oitffla, e?ro rb irotbv, etrd. rb
appealed to it. Whereas, on the any indication of his having
and hence are adapted to cover nooiv; vi. 2, 1026, a, 36: ra
contrary, Simpl. ScJiol. in Ar. arrived at his categories in this
and apply to a content of the trx'hpwB' T? s Karriyoplas, otoy rb
79, a, 44, says : 'A\us oiSa/iov irepl way. On the contrary, he does
most diverse character ; and fthv rl, rb 8e irotbv, rb Be voffbu, rb
Tjjs *Tc££ews tuv yevuv ovSefilay not distinguish the parts of
though this is not so absolutely Be irov, rb Be irore, Kal e¥ rt &K\o
alriav b 'ApiffToreXys awetp-fjvaTO. speech on any such method as
true of others—such as ttoE, irore ffijfiaivet rbv rp6irov rovrov j vii. 4,
2
To Trendelenburg (in his that which Trendelenburg's
or Kei), The
may
completeness of Aristotle's
' just as well be expressed
by
substantive, troabv and irotbv, to
TTOibv, iroffbv, iroiovVy substantives (e.g. Kevirdffxov,
Stanei^evov
with vp6s ti cor-
Kiriris,
list of categories is also supposed
by the proof referred &c, Categ. c.
the adjective ;
(really
Bepfiirns,
only a kind of
to
iroiic, the $td6etrts : see Categ. c. at the end of p. 276, n. 2, that respond such forms 8,
of expres-
: 9, a, 29) or verbs (\e\tAKarrai,