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syncategorematic
[ sin-kat-i-gawr-uh-mat-ik, -gor- ]
adjective
- Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- Contemporary Logic. of or relating to a word or symbol that has no independent meaning and acquires meaning only in the context of other words or symbols, as the symbol ( or the word of. Compare term ( def 9 ).
syncategorematic
/ ɪˌæəˌɡɔːəˈæɪ /
adjective
- philosophy applying to expressions that are not in any of Aristotle's categories, but form meaningful expressions together with them, such as conjunctions and adverbs
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of syncategorematic1
1820–30; < Late Latin Գŧǰŧ-, stem of Գŧǰŧ part of a discourse that needs another word to become fully intelligible ( syn-, categorematic ) + -ic
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A nice point is whether the Adjective is categorematic or syncategorematic.
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But, as we have seen, any of these kinds of word, substantive, adjective, or participle, may occur syncategorematically in connection with others to form a composite term.
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We may notice, too, that the relative pronoun, unlike the rest, is necessarily syncategorematic, for the same reason as the subjunctive mood.
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Mr. Fowler's words Subject and Attributive express practically the same distinction, except that Attributive is of narrower extent than syncategorematic.
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