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Definition of Categorical

1. Adjective. Relating to or included in a category or categories.

2. Adjective. Not modified or restricted by reservations. "A flat refusal"

Definition of Categorical

1. a. Of or pertaining to a category.

Definition of Categorical

1. Adjective. absolute; having no exception ¹

2. Adjective. of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Categorical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Categorical

catechumen catechumenate catechumenates catechumenical catechumenist catechumenists catechumens catechus categorem categorematic

categorematically categoreme categoria categorial categoric categorical (current term) categorical dual categorical imperative categorical imperatives categorical product

categorical trait categorical variable categorical variables categorically categoricalness categoricity categories categorification categorifications categorified

Literary usage of Categorical

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

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Secondly, it is much more a misrepresentation of categorical judgments of ... No amount of subtlety will remove the difference between a categorical ..."

2. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"In hypothetical reasoning, as in categorical, it is the presence of a universal ... The same argument may, however, be expressed equally well in categorical ..."

3. The Essentials of Logic by Roy Wood Sellars (1917)
"Reduction to categorical Form. It has been customary to reduce hypothetical syllogisms to the categorical form and to find analogies therein for these two ..."

4. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"From the nature of the relation of the subject and predicate in judgments, all judgments must be either categorical, hypothetical, or disjunctive. ..."

5. Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic" by Bernard Bosanquet (1885)
"CHAPTER I. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE categorical AND THE HYPOTHETICAL JUDGMENT. i. IF we ask for a mark by which we may distinguish judgment from other ..."

6. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"Ch. I. Quality and Quantity apply primarily to categorical Propositions. simply assert* or denies a fact. As the divisions under Quality and Quantity apply ..."

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