Note 5 — Chapter XXVII
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His usual term is Denkbestimmungen, the several expressions or specific forms of the unification which thought is. The term Categories has been identified by Kant with his list of Stammbegriffe. and by Mill with his classes of nameable things,—with some critical remarks on Aristotle's use of the word. That use—to denote the elements of predicable reality, what Grote called ens—is probably not so 'rhapsodical' as Kant, with his new-born zeal for the contrast of sensibility and intellect, was inclined to suppose. A real history of the Category-theory would be almost a history of philosophy. Perhaps the name might be more sparingly used.