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A super ontology is list of the types of things that exist.
My personal super ontology right now is that there are objects, relations between objects (which themselves are objects), and changes in relations between objects (time).
What other super ontologies have been proposed? That is, what are the theories for what sorts of things this world is comprised of?
Aristotle's Categories is a singularly important work of philosophy. It not only presents the backbone of Aristotle's own philosophical theorizing, but has exerted an unparalleled influence on the systems of many of the greatest philosophers in the western tradition. The set of doctrines in the Categories, which I will henceforth call categorialism, provides the framework of inquiry for a wide variety of Aristotle's philosophical investigations... Aristotle divides what he calls ta legomena (τἃ λεγόμενα), i.e. things that are said, into ten distinct kinds (1b25). Things that are said according to Aristotle, are words (De Int 16a3), and so it is natural to interpret his second system as a classification of words. And because the English word ‘category’ comes from the Greek word for predicate, one might naturally think of the second system as a classification of distinct types of linguistic predicates. There is, however, considerable debate about the subject matter of the second system of classification.
There are three reasons to think that Aristotle is not primarily interested in words but rather in the objects in the world to which words correspond.
There's some .edu notes here
Hope that's the sorta thing you're looking for, I'm not sure, as the question is
