The Theory of Categories
This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and 1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alf
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MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES VOLUME 8
THE THEORY OF CATEGORIES by
FRANZ BRENTANO translated by
RODERICK M. CHISHOLM and NORBERT GUTERMAN
Editor: JAN T. J. SRZEDNICKI Assistant editor: LYNNE M. BROUGHTON Editorial Advisory Council:
R. M. Chisholm, Brown University, Rhode Island. Mats Furberg, GOteborg University. D. A. T. Gasking, University of Melbourne. H. L. A. Hart, University College, Oxford. S. KOrner, University of Bristol- and Yale University. T. Kotarbinski, Warsaw. H. J. McCloskey, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne. J. Passmore, Australian National University, Canberra. C. Perelman, Free University of Brussels. A. Quinton, Trinity College Oxford. Nathan Rotenstreich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Franco Spisani, Centro Superiore di Logica e Scienze Comparate, Bologna. S. J. Surma, Cracow. W. Tatarkiewicz, Warsaw. R. Ziedins, Waikato University, New Zealand.
Communications to be addressed to the Editor, c/o Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia.
THE THEORY OF CATEGORIES by
FRANZ BRENTANO translated by RODERICK M. CHISHOLM
and NORBERT GUTERMAN
1981
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Brentano, Franz Clemens, 1838-1917. The theory of categories. (Melbourne international philosophy series; v. 8) Translation of Kategorienlehre. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Categories (Philosophy). 2. Ontology. 3. Logic. l. Title. II. Series. B3212.K313 1980 110 80-16353 ISBN-13: 978-94-009-8191-1 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-8189-8
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-8189-8
Translated from: Kategorienlehre, first published in German by Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, 1933, with introduction and comments edited by Alfred Kastil.
Copyright © 1981 by Martinus Nijhojj Publishers bv, The Hague. Softcover reprint o/the hardcover 1st edition 1981 All rights reserved. No part oj this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any jorm or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission oj the publisher, Martinus Nijhojj Publishers bv, P.O. Box 566,2501 CN The Hague, The Netherlands.
FranzBrentano, after 1905.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to the Theory of Categories by Roderick M. Chisholm PART ONE
THE STRICT AND THE EXTENDED SENSES OF BEING I.
THE AMBIGUITY OF "IS" AND THE UNITY OF THE CONCEPT OF BEING
A. B. C. D. E. II.
III.
Being in the strict sense and in the extended sense Beings in the strict sense and in the extended sense General objects as beings in the extended sense Universals and their specifications The bizarre distinction between being and existence
15 15 19 23 24 29
REAL AND FICTIVE PARTS OF BEING
34
A. B. C. D. E.
34 41
Universal, genus, s
