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The revival of interest in Aquinas has corresponded with a rise of interest in Aristotle, on whose philosophy Aquinas based his own. On Aquinas is a masterly work of clear and concise exposition. By the use of simple modern analogy, McCabe brings Aquinas’ thought to life and underlines the crucial influence of Aquinas on our own contemporary thought. Even those who are unfamiliar with Aquinas...

Aristotle invented the idea of the categories, which are not a classification of things but of predicates: and not a grammatical classification of the predicates of sentences but a classification of what we are predicating of things by means of sentences when we use them to make statements. To make this point, that the categories are categories of predicates not of things, Aquinas prefers to call them the praedicamenta. Whenever we seek to say what sort of thing this is, for Aquinas we are in the
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