categorematic
IPA: kætʌgˈɑrʌmˈætɪk
adjective
- (logic, of a word) Capable of being employed alone as a term.
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Examples of "categorematic" in Sentences
- It is valid for any uniform substitution of its categorematic terms.
- Buridan and other late medieval logicians proposed that categorematic expressions constitute the
- His idea is that the syncategoreumata must have some sort of signification, but not the same as the categorematic words.
- (They are of course categorematic in the grammatical sense, in which prepositions and adverbs are equally clearly syncategorematic.)
- The latter are defined as words that do not have a definitive meaning on their own, but acquire one only in combination with other, categorematic words.
- The syncategorematic words were naturally seen as indicating the structure or form of the proposition, while the categorematic words supplied its “matter.”
- However, once we have thrown out the old subject/predicate model, we can no longer identify the categorematic terms with the subject and predicate terms, as the medievals did.
- In making this claim, Brentano relies on the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic expressions, i.e., between terms that purport to denote entities, and expressions like “is”, “and”,
- Part I goes on to lay out a fairly detailed theory of terms, including the distinctions between (a) categorematic and syncategorematic terms, (b) abstract and concrete terms, and (c) absolute and connotative terms.
- In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.
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