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A Synopsis of Categories
A Tribute to Peter Roget.
Your life was lived so very well, giving us the words to display - what we so desperately need to say. Literary man would be: a painter without brush, a canvas without oils, a sail without wind, birds without wings, if you had not given us these tools of things. . .
Being - in the abstract.
Being - in the concrete.
A formal existence,
modal existence, in absolute relation to partial relation.
The correspondence of relationship.
Simple quantity,
comparative quality in quantity,
conjunctive quality in a manner of wholeness.
Order.
Order in general -
consecutive order,
collective order,
distributive order, a
nd the conformity of rule.
Number in general -
determinate number -
indeterminate number.
Absolute time,
relative time,
time with reference to age,
time with reference to season - recurrent time.
Change.
Eventuality,
causation,
power.
Power in general,
power in operation. I
ndirect power,
the combination of power,
the combination of forces -
physics,
heat,
light,
mechanics,
color,
electricity,
matter - form.
Space:
Abstract space and specific space.
Relative space - existence in space.
Dimensions:
linear - external - internal - all in structured form through the general,
special - and superficial.
Motion, change of place.
Motion conjoined with force, with relation to direction.
Inorganic matter,
the mineral kingdom:
soil - fluids - vapors.
Organic matter,
animal and vegetable kingdom:
vitality -
vegetable life -
animal life -
mankind -
male and
female.
Touch,
taste,
smell,
sight,
hearing,
sound.
Specific sounds,
musical sounds.
Faculties,
comprehension,
functions of the mind.
Reasoning processes,
assessment,
conclusion - theory - belief - qualifications.
Conformity of fact.
Acceptance.
Mental attitudes,
creative thought, recollections . . .
Anticipation -
education -
indication -
representation,
art of design.
Language,
grammar,
mode of expression:
spoken language,
written,
linguistic,
uncommunicative language.
Falsehoods.
Will.
Resolution,
irresolution,
evasion.
Inclination,
choice,
custom,
motive,
purpose,
ways and means - use.
Order,
change,
eventuality,
causation,
space,
physics,
matter,
sensation,
intellect,
volition,
affections, all through your soul of composition.
Emotion,
excitability,
concern,
pride,
esteem,
social relations.
Social affections,
civility,
benevolence,
sympathy - gratefulness,
ill-humor.
Selfish resentment,
reprisal,
are all intermixed with morals,
moral obligations and sentiments.
Moral conditions,
moral practice,
moral observance - religion.
Supernatural beings,
regions,
beliefs,
sentiments,
practice,
supernaturalism,
churchdom all fall,
to the end of your composition in the life struggle.
Tell me Peter, are you satisfied?
Copyright PsychopeteÓ 2003
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