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Webster 1913 Edition
Syncategorematic
Syn-catˊe-gorˊe-mat′ic
,Adj.
(Logic)
Not capable of being used as a term by itself; – said of words, as an adverb or preposition.
Definition 2024
syncategorematic
syncategorematic
English
Adjective
syncategorematic (comparative more syncategorematic, superlative most syncategorematic)
- (linguistics, of a term) Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
- In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.
- 2009, MacFarlane, John, “Logical Constants”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 2012-05-07:
- 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.