A philosophical concept of the basic nature and interrelation of objective things.Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle regarded category as a general concept about the nature of things. In Categories, he put forward ten categories of substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, date, posture, state, action and passion, of which substance is the most important category, on which all others depend for their existence. The categories themselves do not judge things but can only be employed by us to find out true or false, right or wrong. An important philosopher of classical German philosophy, Kant regarded categories as pure concepts of the understanding and put forward four categories, including: (1) Quantity: unity, plurality, totality; (2) Quality: reality, negation, limitation; (3) Relation: inherence and subsistence, causality and dependence, community; (4) Modality: possibility－impossibility, existence－non-existent, necessity－occasionality…
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