A New Division of General Concepts

The classification of general concepts and types of intelligibles is one of the most important philosophical issues that has had an important position and influence on philosophical thinking. According to some Muslim philosophers, the intelligibles are divided into three categories: primary intelligible and philosophical secondary intelligible and logical secondary intelligible. This famous division is not complete and seems to be confusing and is faced with some difficulties such as incompatibility with holy concepts and its vague relationship to the primacy of existence and some other concepts; in this article, at first, the famous narrative is described, and then we address it critically. A new division is proposed that does not include flaws and ambiguities of the famous division. Finally, the concept of existence is considered as the source of division and other concepts are considered the its branches and, in this way, the popular division of general concepts changes fundamentally.