Philosophy
Aristotelian Categories: Too Many or Too Few?
Aristotle defined the concept of ‘Substance’ to delineate all living and non-living things. All Substances consisted of ‘form’ (soul) and matter. Substances were to be described by way of Categories. For Aristotle, the primary category was the substance itself. Apart from substance, Aristotle defined nine other categories – ‘quantity’, ‘quality’, ‘relation’, ‘time’, ‘place’, ‘condition’, ‘position’, ‘action’ and ‘passion’ (Aristotle, Lecture 08).
The modern day equivalent to the Categories could very well be the ‘exif’ metadata associated with digital photographs! Every photograph taken carries information about light, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, tonal gradation
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