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CHAP. III. 



General Obfervations upon the Categories — Other Diviftons of the ivhole 

 of Things^ fuch as that made by Porphyry^ and aljo that made by 

 Plato — The Nature of the Divifton made by Archytas — his Work Me- 

 iaphyjical — AriJlotW^s Book of Categories a Logical Work — The Na- 

 ture of Porphyry"* s Divifion — The Nature alfo of Plato* s — Both dif- 

 ferent from that of Archytas — Examination of the Uni'uerfals of Archy- 

 tas — Whether there be too many or toofeiv of them — not too many of 

 them — nor too feiv — Shoivn that Motion ought not to be one of Ar" 

 chytas^s Uni'uerfals — nor Time — nor Space — nor Matter — nor Form — 

 nor Power — nor Faculty — Mind^ confidered as a Subflance^ falls wider 

 this dinji/ion — Habit likeivife falls under it — Arifotle*s Di'vifton into 

 Categories -i not compleat — Conclufion of this Part of the Worh, 



THERE have been other divifions made of the unlverfity 

 of things, fuch as that divifion treated of by Porphyry, in his 

 introdudion to Ariftotle's book of Categories, where he has divided 

 all things into genus^ Jpecies^ difference^ property -^ and accident. Such 

 alfo is the divifion made by Plato, confifting likewife of five 

 members, viz. being (for fo I tranflate the ovtna of Plato,) fwirnefst 

 difference^ motion^ and refl. If thefe divifions are in the fame refpedt, 

 and are full and compleat, it is manifeft that the divifion of Archytas, 

 and of Arlftotle, muft be improper, as confiding of two many mem- 

 bers : And, fuppofing them to be in different refpcds, and for differ- 

 ent purpofes, it is to be inquired in what refpcds they differ ; and, 



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