Categories

Abstract

Categories play a major role in contemporary metaphysics.They have not only been invoked in a number of philosophical theories but are themselves objects of epistemological and metaphysical scrutiny. In this article, we will discuss the following questions: How do we know when something belongs to a certain category? Is there a fundamental category of the world? Can we give a satisfactory account of the number of categories and the completeness of systems of categories? Are categories the genuine subjects of ontology?

Factualism and Anti-Descriptivism: A Challenge to the Materialist Criterion of Fundamentality

“…The debate around the fundamentality of categories leads us to the question of how to decide between the different competing views (Cumpa 2020). Aristotle defended substantialism on the basis that the category of substance is prior, simpler and independent of other categories.…”