Definition of Categorem

1. Noun. A categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition. "Names are called categorems"

Exact synonyms: Categoreme
Generic synonyms: Term
Derivative terms: Categorematic, Categorematic
Antonyms: Syncategorem, Syncategoreme

Lexicographical Neighbors of Categorem

catecholborane
catecholboranes
catechols
catechu
catechu nigrum
catechuic
catechuic acid
catechumen
catechumenate
catechumenates
catechumenical
catechumenist
catechumenists
catechumens
catechus
categorem (current term)
categorematic
categorematically
categoreme
categoria
categorial
categoric
categorical
categorical dual
categorical imperative
categorical imperatives
categorical product
categorical trait
categorical variable
categorical variables

Literary usage of Categorem

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, Charles Duke Yonge (1853)
"That is a negative proposition, which consists of a negative particle and a categorem, as for instance, " No one is walking. ..."

2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"For what Mr. Russell really means by a variable here is either a general class name, distributed by the conjunction of a universal categorem or otherwise, ..."

3. Origin of Language and Myths by Morgan Peter Kavanagh (1871)
"... given in the passage already quoted : " strictly speaking, it is doubtful whether even adjectives and pronouns are truly categorem;itir ; inasmuch as it ..."

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