Walter Chatton on Enumerating the Categories
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Although the fourteenth-century Franciscan theologian Walter Chatton did not comment on Aristotle’s Categories, he discussed a number of issues relating to categories in his Lectura on the Sentences. The author examines his response to the question ‘How many categories are there?’ He gives three methods by which we can arrive at the number of the categories, the last two of which seem to meet his approval. Chatton advocates a strong isomorphism between ontology and semantics: the number of the categories is determined by and equal to the number of classes of things.
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M. Roques, “La sémantique Ockhamiste des catégories. Essai de reconstruction,” Vivarium 52.1-2 (2014), 49-71.
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On this distinction see J.J.E. Gracia, “Are Categories Invented or Discovered? A Response to Foucault,” The Review of Metaphysics 55 (2001), 3-20.
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Walter Chatton on Enumerating the Categories
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Although the fourteenth-century Franciscan theologian Walter Chatton did not comment on Aristotle’s Categories, he discussed a number of issues relating to categories in his Lectura on the Sentences. The author examines his response to the question ‘How many categories are there?’ He gives three methods by which we can arrive at the number of the categories, the last two of which seem to meet his approval. Chatton advocates a strong isomorphism between ontology and semantics: the number of the categories is determined by and equal to the number of classes of things.
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| Abstract Views | 305 | 25 | 3 |
| Full Text Views | 198 | 5 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 42 | 4 | 0 |