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Categorematic

adjective
1.
Of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition.





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"Categorematic" Quotes from Famous Books



... was only with some other word that they could be predicated. A word which could be used either as the subject or predicate of a proposition without being accompanied by any other word, was termed by the same authorities a Categorematic term. A combination of one or more Categorematic, and one or more Syncategorematic words, as A heavy body, or A court of justice, they sometimes called a mixed term; but this seems a needless multiplication of technical expressions. A mixed term is, in the only useful sense ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill


Words linked to "Categorematic" :   categoreme, categorem, syncategorematic, logic, autosemantic


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