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A short treatise classifying the ways in which something can be said of a subject: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action and affection. It distinguishes primary substance, the concrete individual, from secondary substances, species and genera, and studies opposites, priority and motion. Through Boethius's Latin translation and Porphyry's Isagoge it was for centuries the first philosophy book a student read, and its doctrine of substance shaped the whole of medieval ontology.

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Authorship note

A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Its authenticity was questioned by some modern philologists but is now widely accepted. It opens the Organon. Bekker 1a–15b.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

  • Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 325), 1938

    Translation: H. P. Cooke y Hugh Tredennick

    ISBN 9780674993594

    Reimpresión registrada en 2002.

Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

Español

  • Tratados de lógica (Órganon) I: Categorías. Tópicos. Sobre las refutaciones sofísticas — Aristotle

    Tratados de lógica (Órganon) I: Categorías. Tópicos. Sobre las refutaciones sofísticas

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 51), 2000

    Translation: Miguel Candel Sanmartín

    ISBN 9788424902322

    Primera edición: 1982.

Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).

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