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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“Thus everything except primary substances is either predicated of primary substances, or is present in them, and if these last did not exist, it would be impossible for anything else to exist”
Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
Aristotle's conclusion that species, genera and qualities all depend on the existence of individual things.
Citation: "Thus everything except primary substances is either predicated of primary substances, or is present in them, and if these last did not exist, it would be impossible for anything else to exist" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q4)
