
The Categories
by Aristotle
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"The Categories" by Aristotle is a philosophical text from ancient Greece that enumerates all possible kinds of things that can be the subject or predicate of a proposition. This foundational work divides everything in human experience into ten fundamental categories, distinguishing between what can be said "of" versus "in" a subject. Aristotle explores substances, quantities, qualities, and relations, providing a framework for understanding reality that influenced medieval philosophy and sparked centuries of debate about language, logic, and existence.
- Categories (Philosophy)
- Logic
- Philosophy, Ancient
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #2412. The Categories on Wikipedia.





