1. Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World

Cumpa, Javier

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“…Neither could the black color of the hot chocolate cease to be a property and become a member of another category, for example, a member of the category of particular like the cup of hot chocolate. By contrast, Cumpa (, , ) has defended what Rosenkrantz () has called “categorial inessentialism”, namely, the view that items do not have categorial essences. According to this view, items do not have categories essentially but rather contingently in virtue of scientific possibilities of combination.…”

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Cumpa

2020

Philosophy Compass

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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?

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Formal Ontology

Hakkarainen,

Keinänen

2023

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Formal ontology as a main branch of metaphysics investigates categories of being. In the formal ontological approach to metaphysics, these ontological categories are analysed by ontological forms. This analysis, which the Element illustrates by some category systems, provides a tool to assess the clarity, exactness and intelligibility of different category systems or formal ontologies. It discusses critically different accounts of ontological form in the literature. Of ontological form, the authors propose a character-neutral relational account. In this metatheory, ontological forms of entities are their standings in internal relations whose holding is neutral on the character of their relata. These relations are 'formal ontological relations'. The Element concludes by showing that our metatheory is useful for understanding categorial fundamentality/non-fundamentality, different formal ontologies, and for unifying metaphysical questions.

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Operators Solve the Many Categories Problem with Universals

Forrest

2018

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

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