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  1. categoriesnoun

    Plural form of category.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Categories

    of Category

Wikidata

  1. Categories

    The Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". The work is brief enough to be divided, not into books as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories. Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without composition or structure, thus anything that can be either the subject or the predicate of a proposition.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Categories

    are either classes under which all our Notions of things may be grouped, or classes under which all our Thoughts of things may be grouped; the former called Logical, we owe to Aristotle, and the latter called Metaphysical, we owe to Kant. The Logical, so derived, that group our notions, are ten in number: Substance or Being, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Position, Possession, Action, Passion. The Metaphysical, so derived, that group our thoughts, are twelve in number: (1) as regards quantity, Totality, Plurality, Unity; (2) as regards quality, Reality, Negation, Limitation; (3) as regards relation, Substance, Accident, Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction; (4) as regards modality, Possibility and Impossibility, Existence and Nonexistence, Necessity and Contingency. John Stuart Mill resolves the categories into five, Existence, Co-existence, Succession, Causation, and Resemblance.

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    Rank popularity for the word 'categories' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2975

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    Rank popularity for the word 'categories' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4602

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of categories in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of categories in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of categories in a Sentence

  1. Nikolai Roussanov:

    Everything that is directly or indirectly touching or dependent upon those really hot categories -- food and energy -- is also seeing faster rises, but it really is a broad-based increase.

  2. The USPS:

    Throughout the peak season, the Postal Service, along with the broader shipping sector, faced pressure on service performance across categories as it managed through a record of volume while also overcoming employee shortages due to the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases, winter storms in the Northeast, as well as ongoing capacity challenges with airlifts and trucking for moving historic volumes of mail.

  3. Hong Kong:

    Many chefs, foodies and people in our industry say Tokyo is the world's best food city, but this doesn't mean only Michelin restaurants, it means all categories of food, from street food, fast food, takeaway to fine dining. It truly is a food paradise.

  4. Cary Roberts:

    These are categories that concern the community so we need to do everything we can to address these problems, and to do it quickly.

  5. Brian Kelly:

    I know people pay for their monthly parking, which in New York City can be quite expensive, put that on the right credit card and you’ll be getting double and triple points. Dig deep in the earning categories on your credit cards, because you may find some categories that you didn’t realize.

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