Aristotle's Categories: Advanced Introduction

This video offers an advanced introduction to Aristotle's Categories, cc. 1-5 (w/ material from cc. 6-8 as well). Topics covered are the following topics: Univocity, Equivocity, Paronymous Naming Substance vs. Accident; Universal vs. Singular The Five Predicables (of Porphyry): Genus, Species, Diff., Property, Accident The Ten Categories in General & Analogy of Being Bonus: Two Species of Quantity; Four Species of Quality; and Three Species of Relation acc. to Thomas Aquinas Translations in this video are taken from the new Hackett edition with frequent modifications to adapt the translation to the purposes of the video. Aristotle, Complete Works, trans. C.D.C. Reeve and Pavlos Kontos, 2 vols. Hackett, 2025. Video creator: Elliot Polsky Website: www.ElliotPolsky.com CV: https://philpeople.org/profiles/ellio... https://sjvdenver.academia.edu/Elliot... Further resources: https://www.thomisticmetaphysics.com/ © Elliot Polsky, 2026. Content in this video should not be reproduced without prior written permission and proper citation. [For academic use, please use proper citation conventions.]