categorem

How To Use categorem In A Sentence

• ˜infinite™ is used categorematically, for in that case its signification is “Things that are infinite are finite.” Sophismata
• Through developmental course of universality, human beings understand the harmony, and create the categorematic term of harmony and universal spirit of harmonic culture.
• His idea is that the syncategoreumata must have some sort of signification, but not the same as the categorematic words. Peter of Spain
• (They are of course categorematic in the grammatical sense, in which prepositions and adverbs are equally clearly syncategorematic.) Logical Truth
• 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. Peter of Spain
• `or' is a syncategorematic term
• The syncategorematic words were naturally seen as indicating the structure or form of the proposition, while the categorematic words supplied its “matter.” Logical Constants
• 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. Logical Constants
• 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”, Brentano's Theory of Judgement
• 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. Logical Constants