... improvement) can only consist in performing more systematically and accurately man, a Greek, an Athenian, a sculptor, an old man, an honest man, a brave man. All these are, or may be, names of Sophroniscus, ... and the like? Probably all these would have been placed by the Aristotelian school in the categories of actio and passio; and the relation of such of them as are active, to their objects, and ... words; as, A heavybody fell, A truly important fact was asserted, A member of parliament was in the room. [pg 031] An adjective, however, is capable of standing by itself as the predicate of a...