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en-wikipedia-org-441		Stoic categories - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1842	191	65	The Stoics believed there were four categories (substance, quality, disposition, relative disposition) which were the ultimate divisions. Since we do not now possess even a single complete work by Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes or Chrysippus what we do know must be pieced together from a number of sources: doxographies and the works of other philosophers who discuss the Stoics for their own purposes.[1] Such incorporeal presence caused problems to the Stoics in saying that the οὐσία of a thing is its matter. It was the effort to solve the problems raised by the Platonists and Peripatetics that led the Stoics to develop their categories, somehow disposed and somehow disposed in relation to something. According to Stephen Menn the first two categories, substance and quality, were recognized by Zeno. According to Stephen Menn, the third category, somehow disposed probably was recognized first in relation to the virtues. Plotinus criticized both Aristotle's Categories and those of the Stoics.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-441.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-441.txt