Definitions
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- adjective Pertaining to a
category
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- adjective of or relating to the concept of categories
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Examples
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Good introductions to the Lambek calculus (also called categorial grammar) can be found in books by Moortgat (1988) and Morrill
Substructural Logics Restall, Greg 2008
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(or what Aristotle would call categorial) content, vowel forms are content-neutral.
Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman Gill, Mary Louise 2005
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It is a categorial term, and so it covers a variety of possibilities.
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It is a categorial term, and so it covers a variety of possibilities.
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But if we think that a categorial term means ‘just what I believe in all details,’ we are making words do more work – in the political theory sphere – than they can/should do.
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I understand that people want the categorial terms we use to have some reliable meaning i.e., we want language to work, but I dislike this kind of ‘you are not a real X’ argument, especially with respect to political views.
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The chairological therefore includes categorial determinations that concern formal temporal relations in and for the factical.
enowning enowning 2009
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The fact that the cumulative discount rate rises to infinity and the discounted value of a unit of income falls to zero after a finite period of time for everyone explains why no one plans for the indefinite future and illustrates how everyone demonstrates categorial time preference.
The Myth of Time Preference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The chairological therefore includes categorial determinations that concern formal temporal relations in and for the factical.
Archive 2009-03-01 enowning 2009
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And, as we become familiar with variants of a general perspective, we might wish to come up with new categorial terms or to provide modifiers for the categorial terms.
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