Sentence examples for Categories from high-quality English sources.

• Some categories have countless variations, others only a few minor ones.

• This gave us lots of small, accurate categories which we think are much more interesting than the broad categories we had previously.

• The next group after that of paired categories is the group of the categories of levels of reality.

• Since we think about categories and through categories, it is pertinent for a philosopher to ask questions of this sort.

• Finally, rather than discussing categories in general, one may deal with particular categories, such as substance or relation.

• The difference between knowing objects and knowing categories explains why ontological categories are often confused with concepts.

• It may be that a person’s social categories are generated by that person’s mental states, without the categories having to be conceptualized.

• Returning categories interact with the categories of the higher level and are, so to speak, contaminated by them; some of their moments become different.

Use Categories in a sentence.

• Arguments about which of the many systems of categories offered is correct likewise seem to presuppose that there is a uniquely correct list of categories.

• He does not begin from a single highest kind, but rather lists the following as the ten highest categories of things “said without any combination” (Categories 1b25):

• He devotes a few comments to the categories of action and passion (11b1) and then has a brief discussion of one of the odder categories, having, at the end of the work (15b17–35).

• The result was a scheme of 13 categories, laid out in Hegel-like “succession” organized in three groups with the categories of Universality and Quantity acting as “link categories” in the two transitions between the groups.

• They, too, explicitly offer their system of categories in the spirit of categorial description, as offering an analysis of the various possible categories of being, rather than making any claims about which of these categories is non-empty (1994, 7–8).

• Ingvar Johansson (1989) and Roderick Chisholm (1996) both take a neo-Aristotelian realist approach to categories, attempting to lay out a complete system of the categories, where this is understood as providing a list of categories of real entities in the world.

• As to the second sort of unity concerning the number of highest categories, those who are pluralists about the number of categories still may (or may not) posit one highest category—a summum genus, such as entity or being—under which all the entities in the lower categories fall.

• The specific worries about (1) guaranteeing the mutual exclusiveness and joint exhaustiveness of the categories, and (2) whether or not any single system of categories could purport to be uniquely correct, can, however, be met by certain ways of formulating ontological categories.

Categories sentence examples

• Although he does not say so overtly in the Categories, Aristotle evidently presumes that these ten categories of being are both exhaustive and irreducible, so that while there are no other basic beings, it is not possible to eliminate any one of these categories in favor of another.

• In the twentieth century, systems of ontological categories fell somewhat out of fashion (for reasons I will discuss in §1.5 below), with most discussion of categories shifting to merely articulating category differences rather than aiming to outline a comprehensive system of categories.

• First, while Aristotle used language as a clue to ontological categories, and Kant treated concepts as the route to categories of objects of possible cognition, Husserl explicitly distinguished categories of meanings from categories of objects, and attempted to draw out the law-like correlations between categories of each sort (Smith 2007, 139ff.).

• They must address the issue of what the proper methods are by means of which categories are to be distinguished, how many categories there are and what they are, whether or not there is a single summum genus subsuming all other categories, and whether we should distinguish a single system of categories or multiple dimensions of categories – issues on which there has been little agreement.