Chapter 48

Those things are generically the same which fall in the same category, as, for example, all things under substance— and in the same way with the other nine categories. One must know that in all there are ten categories, or most general genera, to which every absolute term is referred. They are as follows: (1) substance, as, for example, stone; (2)

quantity, as, for example, two, three; (3) relation, as, for example, father, son; (4) quality, as, for example, white, black; (5) place, as, for example, in Damascus, and this is indicative of place; (6) time, as, for example, yesterday, to