Supplement 1

Categories

Categories stand within the horizon of ἀρχαί. What, in general, do ἀρχαί mean? “From out of what” of beings (as such), i.e., how of being. What function do the categories have as ἀρχαί? What can and must be the ἀρχή/ἀρχαί of beings? Ἀρχή of there-ness: beings qua οὐσία, i.e., in relation to thereness—ᾗ ὄν refers to a determinate sense of being!

Either 1. τὰ πρῶτα τῶν γενῶν, or 2. τὰ ἔσχατα κατηγορούμενα ἐπὶ τῶν ἀτόμῶν (κατὰ μή).

Ad 1. Are γένη in general able to be ἀρχαι? Πρῶτα γένη, τὰ ἀνωτάτω τῶν γενῶν are τὸ ὄν and τὸ ἕν. Being as such cannot be a genus, to the extent of predicates of genuses. Can it not be ἀρχή? Does it follow from this that ἀρχαί are not γένη? Insofar as even “being” the μάλιστα κατὰ πάντων? But how?

Categories and Discoveredness

Speaking about . . .: self-expressive addressing of . . . as being-in or being-there of the world.

Cf. the controversies: 1. determinations of beings; 2. those of λόγος: a) language, grammar, b) sentence, judgment, predication—and variations. (Being of categories, cf. especially Nic. Eth. A!)

Both apprehended unclearly: not of beings, but rather of being—how of the there (and of the determinate environing world—ζωὴ πρακτική, Nic. Eth. A 4); not of speaking, as “subjective” or the like, but rather of interpretive-being toward . . .: the fore-sightings, fore-havings of dealing, i.e., characters of the how of being-in in [the] world, of the being-positioned-in-relation-to these—not aspects, but discoverednesses.

Seeing directly out on λόγον ἔχον! Pointed explicitness of the worn out λόγος in the κατηγορεῖν. Aristotle’s terminological construction!

Supplement 2

Categories of Aristotle (On the Categories)

Τὰ κατὰ μηδεμίαν συμπλοκὴν λεγόμενα—ἕκαστον σημαίνει.²⁰¹

201. Cat. 4, 1 b 25 sq.: Τῶν κατὰ μηδεμίαν συμπλοκὴν λεγομένων ἕκαστον [. . .] σημαίνει.