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    Supports→Metaphysical concepts such as being, unity, essence, cause, and God are not signified by non-paronymous nouns or by paronymous nouns or verbs, but by particles in an ideal logical language.

    Where grammatical form tracks logical form, non-paronymous nouns signify substances or beings in Aristotelian categories, and paronymous nouns or verbs signify that such beings are present in or attributed to some underlying subject.

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    Aristotelian categories(in Aristotle's metaphysics)
    Aristotle's system for sorting all the different ways things can exist or be described—like substance, quantity, quality, relation, and others.
    Aristotle
    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.

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    Grammatical form(in logic and language)
    The way a sentence is structured and organized—like whether a word is a noun, verb, or adjective, and how words are arranged together.
    Non-paronymous nouns(in Aristotelian philosophy)
    Nouns (naming words) that have a fixed meaning and don't change based on what they're describing—basically straightforward names for things.
    Paronymous nouns(in Aristotelian philosophy)
    Nouns or words that change their meaning or form depending on what they're being applied to—related words that share a root but have different uses.
    logical form(Used to characterize logical consequence)
    The way that a sentence is built up from the logical particles.
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
    substances(Used to distinguish the category of substance from that of property in ontology.)
    Individual objects; the entities that properties are predicated of.

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    Where grammatical form tracks logical form, a non-paronymous noun will signify either a substance or a being in one of the nine Aristotelian categories of accidents, and a paronymous noun or a verb will signify that such a being is present in or attributed to some underlying subject. But metaphysics, as Fârâbî understands it, is not about things in the categories (Book of Letters I,11–17), but rather about the categories themselves (especially substance) and about trans-categorial concepts such

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