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They, too, explicitly offer their system of categories in the spirit of categorial description, as offering an analysis of the various possible categories of being, rather than making any claims about which of these categories is non-empty (1994, 7 8).
Thus on a categorial realist approach, providing a system of categories can be seen as one, or even the central task of metaphysics (cf. Grossman 1983, 3).
In any case, regardless of how the categories were derived, Aristotle's approach to categories is generally taken to be in the spirit of what Brian Carr calls "categorial realism"—an approach conceiving of a system of categories as a list of the highest genera of beings (not merely of language or thought--even if those may be used in deriving the metaphysical categories).
Even the cataloguing system was invented for it in the 50s in Russia and still has a politicised system of categories including "Marxist philosophy" and "bourgeois philosophy"; all books on racism have to be catalogued under "anti-Semitism".
A system of categories is a complete list of highest kinds or genera.
Unlike Valla, Ockham does not want to get rid of the system of categories.
The system of categories was designed and evolved with support of MaxQDA.
The most famous of the pseudo-Archytan texts is The Whole System of Categories, which, along with On Opposites, represents the attempt to claim Aristotle's system of categories for the Pythagoreans.
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Systems of categories are not objectively "out there" in the world, but are rooted in people's experiences.
A system of ontological categories drawn out in any of these modes has the potential for a great many uses in philosophy, but those who would offer such systems of categories also face a variety of difficulties.
Arguments about which of the many systems of categories offered is correct likewise seem to presuppose that there is a uniquely correct list of categories.
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