Relation Between Categories and Prior Analytics

Aristotle’s categories consist of methods of describing (categorizing) human perception and understanding. Topics include substance, quantity, relativity, quality, action / affection, opposition, contradiction, priority, simultaneity, movement, possession. Predicate logic seems to exist in the categories specifically in the substance category to describe the individual, man and animal relationship. It struck me as being similar to the syllogism discussed in last week’s class: Humans are mortal, Socrates is a human, Socrates is mortal. Prior Analytics builds upon these ideas, developing further modes of logic and reasoning as well as methods for establishing and refuting propositions and investigating problems.