Aristotle: The Categories

Aristotle was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings include philosophy, logic, rhetoric, government, biology and zoology. The Catagories explains how every object can be placed in one of the categories. This was known as the praedicamenta. The text begins by defining, synonymous (univocal words), homonymous (equivocal words) and paronymous (demonstrative words).