syncategorematic

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'Weight' may be used in the abstract for 'gravity,' or in the concrete for a measure; but in the latter sense it is syncategorematic (in the singular), needing at least the article 'a (or the) weight Government' may mean 'supreme political authority,' and is then abstract; or, the men who happen to be ministers, and is then concrete; but in this case, too, the article is usually prefixed.

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  1. In logic, noting or relating to words which cannot singly express a term, but only a part of a term, as adverbs and prepositions.
  2. Syncategorematic quantity. See quantity.
  3. In logic, a word which cannot be used as a term by itself, as an adverb or a preposition.

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  • 'Weight' may be used in the abstract for 'gravity,' or in the concrete for a measure; but in the latter sense it is syncategorematic (in the singular), needing at least the article 'a (or the) weight Government' may mean 'supreme political authority,' and is then abstract; or, the men who happen to be ministers, and is then concrete; but in this case, too, the article is usually prefixed. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
  • It is true that the syncategorematic words _and_ and —  A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • It is true that the syncategorematic words _and_ and _but_ have a meaning; but that meaning is so far from making the two propositions one, that it adds a third proposition to them. —  A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • We may notice, too, that the relative pronoun, unlike the rest, is necessarily syncategorematic, for the same reason as the subjunctive mood. —  Deductive Logic
  • Of the remaining parts of speech the article, adverb, preposition, and conjunction can never be anything but syncategorematic, while the interjection is acategorematic, like the vocative case of nouns and the imperative and optative moods of verbs, which do not enter at all into the form of sentence known as the proposition.]. —  Deductive Logic
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  1. from Greek συγκατηγορηματικός, from συγκατηγόρημα, a co-predicate, from συγκατηγορεῖν, predicate jointly, from σύν, together, + κατηγορεῖν, predicate, assert: see categorem, categorematic.
 

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