/lit/ - Literature

I literally teach this lil' nigga what do you want to know?

>Why do undergrads hate him.
I'll tell you why you fucking uneducated piece of shit: absolutely no one understands him because he's explaining something that's become so suffused into the collective cultural consciousness it's become an essential component of individual, and collective thought processes.

Why don't they understand him? Because he's delineating something that every single Western person manifests inherently in their middling mentalizations of reality.

Here's a crash course because I hate undergraduates so much it's unreal.

>Predication
A substance (discrete unit of reality) to Aristotle is that which can be predicated of. That is to say, a substance is anything that can be said to be in possession of observable qualitative properties as distinct from other qualitative properties.

* A subject (substance) (hupokeimenon) is what a statement is about
* A predicate (katêgoroumenon) is what a statement says about its subject

Examples:
>This (particular animal) is a man.
>Man (not referring to any particular man, but as a general class of thing) is an animal.
>This (particular color on this particular wall) is white.
>White (not referring to any particular substance, but as a general class of thing) is a color.

The same substance may be both a subject and a predicate when they refer to a general class without referring to any particular example within that class, e.g., man and white above. However, some substances are subjects but are never predicates, e.g., this particular man named John, or this particular white color on this particular wall.

The reason for this is quite clear once it's expressed diagrammatically (which I will construct now):

>Pic Related

All Aristotle is explaining is that there are concrete objects (like an apple sitting on a desk) and that there are also generalized conceptualizations that we can make about them that are themselves distinct from the object (an apple is a fruit) and that these have essential properties (an apple is a fruit by definition of the fact its an apple, as fruit is a plant by definition of the fact its a fruit, etc.) and that he got sorta confused about whether or not abstract generalizations of intangible objects such as knowledge, color, and love, or consciousness are concrete or abstract in their essential nature and so now thousands of generations of idiots are confused too.