One question that I thought about while reading the chapter on Aristotle was what is the difference between Plato's forms and Aristotle's categories? Plato's forms refer to how the brain classifies and organizes what we perceive. He then breaks these up in to four sub groups: Classification of general terms, ultimately real, to do with what we know, and to do with how we should live life.
Aristotle's categories rejects Plato's view of forms because he states that it is singular in a plural situations. He writes mostly about the same characteristics being applied to animals. For example, a dog being dog like. The main reason he rejects Plato's theory because he doesn't believe that the characteristics are in a separate world. He believes that they are right there with it.
They share similar beliefs of characteristics being important to a person remembering what something is and how the mind organizes it. Aristotle writes more about the stereotypical parts and Plato writes more about the biological aspects.
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