PREMIUM-Ep. 279: Aristotle's "Categories" of Being (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Continuing on the Categories, considering artifacts, social construction in cutting up the world, different kinds of properties, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained, |
| 0:12.7 | fully satisfying experiences in themselves. |
| 0:15.6 | But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind |
| 0:20.0 | our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show. |
| 0:24.1 | What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, and hope you |
| 0:27.7 | enjoy it. |
| 0:29.4 | This is the partially examined life episode 279 Part 2. |
| 0:34.0 | We've been discussing aerosautos categories, and we're right in the middle of substance. |
| 0:40.4 | We ended last time talking about individual particular things that belong to natural |
| 0:45.8 | kinds, so biological entities being paradigmatic substances, and then secondary substances, |
| 0:52.1 | the species or the genera are also candidates in a way for substance, and we explain that. |
| 0:58.4 | But maybe it's worth just pausing to say what about other bond biological entities in |
| 1:05.0 | our world, right? |
| 1:06.0 | So we mentioned Kripke for us, something like gold or water would count as a natural |
| 1:11.4 | kind as well. |
| 1:12.4 | But what about just a rock? |
| 1:14.4 | How does aerosautosontology handle that? |
| 1:16.2 | I simply don't know. |
| 1:17.4 | I did read that he doesn't like made up entities like Socrates standing. |
| 1:22.2 | Like that's not an entity. |
| 1:23.6 | That's an accidental composite. |
| 1:26.1 | For the point of that is that if something is to be genuinely an individual particular, |
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