Categories

If you are crafting your own more abstracted, old school chart you will probably come to the point where you are racking your brain for the categories of a person/place/thing to include in said chart. In thinking about my item chart I decided to make a list of general categories. So, from Aristotle's Categories, the Praedicamenta:

• Substance
• Quantity
• Quality
• Relation
• Place
• Time
• Position
• State (shod, armed, etc.)
• Action
• Affection (actually affected by, affected in some way)

And because those were even a little more abstracted than is useful, I turned to the adjectival order in English. (Did you know English has a fairly standard order that the adjectives in a sentence appear? I actually didn't until I started teaching foreign language speakers.):

• Opinion/Judgement
• Dimension (size, length, width)
• Age
• Shape
• Color
• Origin
• Material
• Purpose
• Appearance/Condition

Hopefully that's helpful. If it isn't new to you it will still be nice to save this here for myself; I'm finding that on reading my old posts I have interesting ideas that I've completely forgotten about!