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Webster 1913 Edition

Categorical

Catˊe-gor′ic-al

,
Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to a category.
2.
Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express;
as, a
categorical
proposition, or answer
.
The scriptures by a multitude of
categorical
and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Categorical

CATEGORICAL

, a.
1.
Pertaining to a category.
2.
Absolute; positive; express; not relative or hypothetical; as a categorical proposition, syllogism or answer.

Definition 2024

categorical

categorical

English

Adjective

categorical ‎(comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

  1. absolute; having no exception
    • 1856, Robert Gordon Latham, Logic in the Application to Language:
      We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
    • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
      Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
  2. of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories

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Noun

categorical ‎(plural categoricals)

  1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

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