Whiteness and is Socrates' similarity to Plato, while another relative similarity-thing inheres in Plato's whiteness and is Plato's similarity to Socrates. For example, when Socrates and Plato are similar, a relative similarity thing inheres in Socrates' Quantity, or qualities and their term in something else. Accidents in the remaining seven categories are relative things ( respectus) that have their foundations either in the substance,
inhere in dimensive quantity immediately and The inherence of dimensive quantity other absolute quality-accidents such as color, flavor, odor, shape, etc. (T2) ' A is B' is true if and only if something that is A has B-ness, or B-ness inheres inįor all substitutions of proper names for ' N', concrete general terms for ' B', and abstract general terms for 'ī-ness' would be tantamount to adopting the ontology of the moderns with a distinct kind of thing for each of the ten Aristotelian categories.Īccording to Ockham's description in the Summa Logicae, the moderns saw substances such as Socrates as having a certain layer-like structure: at theĬore is a particular substance composed of prime matter with several substantial forms it is made one by the inherence of discrete quantity and extended by (T1) ' N is B' is true if and only if B-ness inheres in N To the categories of substance and quality.(1) For endorsing Ockham's account of the truth conditions for categorical propositions of the forms ' N is B' and ' A isī' is dictated by his two-fold ontological program: to eliminate universals other than names or concepts and to restrict particular things ( res) "Things Versus "Hows", or Ockham on Predication and Ontology." In Essays in Ontology, edited byĪllaire, Edwin B., 175-188.
For Ockham's contributions to the theories of supposition and mental language see: Medieval Theories of Supposition (Reference) and Mental Language on the website "History ofĪdams, Marilyn McCord.
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