It is valid for any uniform substitution of its categorematic terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Buridan and other late medieval logicians proposed that categorematic expressions constitute the. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
Verbs also are categorematic, but only in three of their moods, the Indicative, the Infinitive, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
His idea is that the syncategoreumata must have some sort of signification, but not the same as the categorematic words. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
(They are of course categorematic in the grammatical sense, in which prepositions and adverbs are equally clearly syncategorematic.). From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
A term then may be said to be a categorematic word or collection of words, that is to say, one which can be used by itself as a predicate. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
There is a sense in which every word may become categorematic, namely, when it is used simply as a word, to the neglect of its proper meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
The syncategorematic words were naturally seen as indicating the structure or form of the proposition, while the categorematic words supplied its “matter.”. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
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”. From Wordnik.com. [Brentano's Theory of Judgement] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
Classify the following words according as they are categorematic, syncategorematic or acategorematic; -- come peradventure why through inordinately pshaw therefore circumspect puss grand inasmuch stop touch sameness back cage disconsolate candle. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
˜every™, etc., but also categorematic terms like. From Wordnik.com. [Sophismata] Reference
“categorematic” sense. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Mereology] Reference
'galloping' are categorematic. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
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