Meaning | Of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms. |
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Example | "'or' is a syncategorematic term" |
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Category | logic | The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
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Narrower | synsemantic | Of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words |
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Opposite | categorematic | Of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition |
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Nouns | syncategorem, syncategoreme | a syncategorematic expression |
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