Abstract
The paper concerns the first type of constructed (as opposed to ontological) categories – that is, the so-called theoretical categories in terminology, which have an indirect, secondary existence in reality as a theoretical construct and subject of human thought. I illustrate these categories with examples from the natural sciences and partly from the humanities. The ontological categories underlying each theoretical category are also specified. Using different examples, I explore and motivate the grounds for the positing of these categories as a separate group distinct both from the ontological categories on the basis of which they are identified and the second type of constructed categories – the so-called operators. I also put forward a proposal for the inclusion of a new, additional element in the natural classification of theoretical categories. Keywords: theoretical categories; ontological categories; conceptual-semantic categories; terminology
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