Note 94 — Chapter V · LOGIC OF THE STOICS.

(c) Relation of the categories to one another. The relation of these four categories to one another is such, that each preceding category is included in the one next following, and receives from it a more definite character.94 Substance never occurs in reality without property, but has always some definite quality to give it a character. On the other hand, property is never met with alone, but always in connection with some subject-matter.95 Variety presupposes some definite substance, and variety of relation supposes the existence of variety.96 It will hereafter be seen how closely these deductions, and, indeed, the whole doctrine of the categories, depend on the metaphysical peculiarities of the Stoic system.