`or' is a syncategorematic term. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Such reflections suggest the possibility, explored with great ingenuity by medieval logicians, that all propositions are composed of categorical propositions and a small number of so-called syncategorematic elements. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
"syncategorematic" as applied to expressions was roughly this semantic sense (see Kretzmann 1982, pp. 212 ff.). From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
Gilbert Ryle called them syncategorematic: these entities are not highly generic kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman] Reference
Note that the parentheses in LeÅniewski's notation do not themselves have a category: they are syncategorematic. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] Reference
Most prepositions and adverbs are presumably syncategorematic, but they are also presumably non-logical expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
More important for metalogical purposes is the fact that the universal quantifier too is syncategorematic in LeÅniewski. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] Reference
Modifications were made to this simple scheme to cover the cases of special terms, including syncategorematic terms, such as. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] 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
Peter's treatise on syncategorematic words forms part of a separate genre that developed from the beginning of the thirteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
We may notice, too, that the relative pronoun, unlike the rest, is necessarily syncategorematic, for the same reason as the subjunctive mood. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But the whole point of Brentano's theory is that the term “exists” is syncategorematic and merely expresses the quality of the judgement. From Wordnik.com. [Brentano's Theory of Judgement] Reference
As you doubtless remember, Aristotle describes ‘same’ as a syncategorematic term; one which cuts across distinctions, for example, of time and place. From Wordnik.com. [Please don't apologize] 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
The first two separate chapters of the Syncategoreumata are devoted to the words est and non, which are said to be implied in all other syncategorematic words. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
The puzzling aspect of these sophisms is variously caused by semantic or syntactic ambiguities involved in certain logical or “syncategorematic” words such as. From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
Put in terms of supposition, the syncategorematic phrase ˜immediately after the present moment™ renders the supposition of the term that follows it merely confused. From Wordnik.com. [William Heytesbury] Reference
Since syncategorematic terms only affect terms that follow them, moving a term confused by a syncategorematic word before that word will negate the confusing effect of the word. From Wordnik.com. [William Heytesbury] Reference
One possibility is to deny that attitude verbs designate relations when complemented by that-clauses, and to claim that they rather make a syncategorematic semantic contribution. From Wordnik.com. [Propositions] Reference
Chapter eight discusses the signification and use of connectives, and the final chapter on syncategorematic words proper is concerned with the expressions quanto, quam and quicquid. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
And so on, until we arrive at a fully expanded nominal definition of the original, simple connotative term, a definition that consists only of absolute terms and of various syncategorematic expressions. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
A well-formed sentence must be categorical, and so have a single subject and a single predicate, however complex these two terms may become through the use of exponible and syncategorematic terms in them. From Wordnik.com. [William Heytesbury] 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 a somewhat different, earlier, grammatical sense of the word, syncategorematic expressions were said to be those that cannot be used as subjects or predicates in categorical propositions; see Kretzmann 1982, pp. 211-2.). From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] 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
Therefore in the “official” system the universal quantifier remained as a syncategorematic expression, but still entered into legal combinations, which meant that the syntax of his systems was not fully captured by categorial grammar. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] 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
The connection these treatises have with Priscian's grammar can be gathered from the attention different authors pay to the signa quantitatis (or quantifiers), and the fact that considerable attention is given to the meaning and function of syncategorematic terms. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
If we count all functional expressions as syncategorematic on the grounds that they are “incomplete” or “unsaturated” and thus not “independently meaningful,” then the syncategorematic expressions will include not just connectives and quantifiers, but ordinary predicates. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
Although the distinction between de dicto and de re modal sentences was common in logical treatises on the properties of the terms, syncategorematic terms, and the solution of sophisms, twelfth - and thirteenth-century logicians were mainly interested in the logical properties of singular de re modal sentences. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
'Weight' may be used in the abstract for 'gravity,' or in the concrete for a measure; but in the latter sense it is syncategorematic. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
˜syncategorematic™: the phrase does not refer to an event or state of the agent, but is a way of redescribing what he is doing in terms of a ˜primary reason,™ where this is understood as a pro-attitude towards actions having some feature, F, along with the belief that the original action has that feature. From Wordnik.com. [Intention] Reference
That would make (3) syncategorematic and (4) and. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constants] Reference
"matter" of sentences while the syncategorematic expressions constitute their "form" (see the text quoted by BocheÅski 1956. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Truth] Reference
“cause” go syncategorematic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
“infinite” is syncategorematic, rather like. From Wordnik.com. [William Heytesbury] Reference
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