والعرض: هو الموجود في موضوع، أي محل.
An accident is an existent in a subject or bearer.
Consider a white sheet of paper. The paper is a body, while its whiteness is a quality. Whiteness is an attribute of the paper, and the paper is its bearer.
The distinction appears when we ask “What thing is it?” versus “What attribute does it have?”. Accidents are not restricted to colors: the nine categories also include quantity, place, time, relation and forms of activity.
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Highest Genera and the Ten Categories
والعرض: هو الموجود في موضوع، أي محل.
An accident is an existent in a subject or bearer.
Consider a white sheet of paper. The paper is a body, while its whiteness is a quality. Whiteness is an attribute of the paper, and the paper is its bearer.
The distinction appears when we ask “What thing is it?” versus “What attribute does it have?”. Accidents are not restricted to colors: the nine categories also include quantity, place, time, relation and forms of activity.