syncategorematic
adjEtymology From syn- + categorematic.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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.
- 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.2009, John MacFarlane, “Logical Constants”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 07 May 2012:
- Antonyms
- categorematic
- Derived terms
- syncategorematically, syncategorematicity
- Related terms
- syncategoreme, logical constant