Aristotle's Reality
by Alyssa Ingram
1. Aristotle's Ten Categories
1.1. Substance: essence
1.2. Quantity: how much
1.3. Quality: what kind
1.4. Relation: relationship toward something
1.5. Place: where
1.6. Time: when
1.7. Position: "to lie"
1.8. State: having something
1.9. Action: to make or do
1.10. Affection: how one object changes another
2. Change
2.1. Fire
2.1.1. hot and dry
2.2. Air
2.2.1. hot and wet
2.3. Water
2.3.1. cold and wet
2.4. Earth
2.4.1. cold and dry
2.5. You get change by adding or subtracting contraries
3. States of Being
3.1. Potential
3.2. Actual
4. Substance
4.1. Form + Matter
5. Aristotelian Cosmos
6. Four Causes
6.1. Formal
6.1.1. idea/model
6.2. Material
6.2.1. what's it made of?
6.3. Efficient
6.3.1. who/what makes it?
6.4. Final
6.4.1. purpose