127

Logic 127

TEXT resumed

approach to anything resembling these categories.

It is desirable that there should be technical terms for the categories.
They should be expressive and not liable to be used in special senses in philosophy.
The simplicity and pervasiveness of the categories render metaphorical designations quite impossible since such a term if at all appropiate would contain the very category.
There can be no resemblance to a category of metaphorical name would probably contain the category in the first syllable and the rest of the word would be padding.
I prefer therefore to borrow a word or still better to compose one which etymologically if it may be by similarity with familiar words indispensibly shall suggest a number of shapes in which the category is prominent.
I propose to take the following term on probation: