How Things Are

One of the earliest and most influential treatises on the subject of this volume is Aristotle''s Categories. Aristotle''s title is a form of the Greek verb for speaking against or submitting an accusation in a legal proceeding. By the time of Aristotle, it also meant: to signify or to predicate. Surprisingly, the "predicates" Aristotle talks about include not only bits of language, but also such n...