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Greek thinkers adopted the concept of a category (the Greek word originally denoted an "accusation", an "assertion" or a "predication")for philosophical classification. The process of abstraction required to discover the number and names of the categories of being has been undertaken by many philosophers since and including Aristotle, and involves the careful inspection of each concept to ensure that there is no higher category or categories which could subsume that concept. The scholars

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