syncategorematic

comparative more syncategorematic · superlative most syncategorematic · alternative syncategorematical

1. human sciencesNeeding 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.

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   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