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category, in philosophycategory, philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be made of a subject. Immanuel Kant's 12 categories constitute an exhaustive list of the a priori forms through which a person knows the phenomenal world. The term has also been used in many other senses by various philosophers.category, in taxonomycategory, in taxonomy: see classification taxonomy, the study of the relationships of organisms, which includes collection, preservation, and study of specimens, and analysis of data provided by various areas of biological research...... Click the link for more information. . category 1. Metaphysics any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed 2. a. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any one of ten most fundamental modes of being, such as quantity, quality, and substance b. (in the philosophy of Kant) one of twelve concepts required by human beings to interpret the empirical world c. any set of objects, concepts, or expressions distinguished from others within some logical or linguistic theory by the intelligibility of a specific set of statements concerning them category [′kad·ə‚gȯr·ē] (mathematics) A class of objects together with a set of morphisms for each pair of objects and a law of composition for morphisms; sets and functions form an important category, as do groups and homomorphisms. (systematics) In a hierarchical classification system, the level at which a particular group is ranked.
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In the second category Pierre reckoned himself and others like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so. Double', 'half','greater', fall under the category of relation; 'in a the market place', 'in the Lyceum', under that of place; 'yesterday', 'last year', under that of time. The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities. |
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