User:RekonDog/Sandbox/Abrahamic Philosophy & Science/Appendix VI
This list of categories given in the al-Qatighuriyas wa Tubiqa
is not exhaustive or final. (Greek: ousia, essence or substance
|Arabic jauhar, q.v.). Substance is that which cannot be
predicated of anything or be said to be in anything. Hence, this
particular man or that particular tree are substances. Later in
the text, Aristotle calls these particulars “primary
substances”, to distinguish them from secondary substances,
which are universals and can be predicated. Hence, Socrates is a
primary substance, while man is a secondary substance. Man is
predicated of Socrates, and therefore all that is predicated of
man is predicated of Socrates. kamm, q.v.; (poson, how much).
This is the extension of an object, and may be either discrete
or continuous. Further, its parts may or may not have relative
positions to each other. All medieval discussions about the
nature of the continuum, of the infinite and the infinitely
divisible, are a long footnote to