Aristotle's Categories already provides a stable taxonomy of predication—essential, accidental, per se, per accidens—sufficient to handle identity and difference in subject-predicate relations.
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accidental(describing kinematic motion as non-essential)
In philosophy, a property that something can gain or lose without changing what it fundamentally is (unlike essential properties that define the thing itself).
categories(Kantian epistemology)
The most basic concepts of objects in general, which are unavoidably employed whenever we think about anything whatsoever
per accidens(Used to explain how evil can come from good without the good being the essential cause of evil)
Incidentally; not by essential nature but by circumstance
per se(Contrasted with per accidens in explaining how one contrary relates to another)
Of itself; intrinsically or essentially
predication(Soames treats predication as a primitive notion that underlies but does not reduce to belief.)
A primitive mental act whereby an agent represents an object as having a property — for example, representing o as red via perception, thought, or nonlinguistic perceptual belief.
taxonomy(as used in cognitive science)
A system for organizing and classifying things into categories—like how biologists organize living creatures into species and families.