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  • 111CATEGORIES — CATEGORIES, in medieval Jewish philosophy the highest logical as well as metaphysical classification into which all beings are divided. aristotle (Categories, chs. 5–9; Metaphysics, book 5, especially chs. 8 and 30. speaks of the categories which …

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  • 112SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENT — (Heb. עֶצֶם and מִקְרֶה respectively). According to Aristotle (Categories, ch. 5, Metaphysics, 5:8), substance is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject, e.g., the individual man or horse; accident, something which …

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