Cover of The Categories

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.

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