How To Use Categorem In A Sentence
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˜infinite™ is used categorematically, for in that case its signification is “Things that are infinite are finite.”
Sophismata
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Through developmental course of universality, human beings understand the harmony, and create the categorematic term of harmony and universal spirit of harmonic culture.
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His idea is that the syncategoreumata must have some sort of signification, but not the same as the categorematic words.
Peter of Spain
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(They are of course categorematic in the grammatical sense, in which prepositions and adverbs are equally clearly syncategorematic.)
Logical Truth
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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
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`or' is a syncategorematic term
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The syncategorematic words were naturally seen as indicating the structure or form of the proposition, while the categorematic words supplied its “matter.”
Logical Constants
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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
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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
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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
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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.
William Heytesbury
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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.
Peter of Spain
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Buridan and other late medieval logicians proposed that categorematic expressions constitute the
Logical Truth
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logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes
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It is valid for any uniform substitution of its categorematic terms.
The Statue of a Writer
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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.
William of Ockham
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names are called categorems
