Syncategorematic vs Categoric - What's the difference?
syncategorematic | categoric |
(linguistics, of a term) Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
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As adjectives the difference between syncategorematic and categoric
is that syncategorematic is needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language while categoric is categorical.syncategorematic
English
(syncategorematic term)Adjective
(en adjective)- In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.
- 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.