syncategorematic การใช้
- Under this definition it would be non-syncategorematic, or categorematic.
- The distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms was established in ancient Greek grammar.
- In the common definition of propositional logic, examples of syncategorematic terms are the logical connectives.
- Concepts are normally expressed as words, and words come in two types, catergorematic and syncategorematic terms.
- Whether a term is syncategorematic or not is determined by the way it is defined or introduced in the language.
- In propositional calculus, a "'syncategorematic term "'is a term that has no individual meaning ( a term with an individual meaning is called categorematic ).
- Words that designate self-sufficient entities ( i . e ., nouns or adjectives ) were called categorematic, and those that do not stand by themselves were dubbed syncategorematic, ( i . e ., prepositions, logical connectives, etc . ).
- On this view, definite descriptions like'the present King of France'do have a denotation ( specifically, definite descriptions denote a function from properties to truth values they are in that sense not syncategorematic, or " incomplete symbols " ); but the view retains the essentials of the Russellian analysis, yielding exactly the truth conditions Russell argued for.
- Albert s voluminous collection of " Sophismata " [ c . 1359 ] examined various sentences that raise difficulties of interpretation due to the presence of syncategorematic words-terms such as quantifiers and certain prepositions, which, according to medieval logicians, do not have a proper and determinate signification but rather modify the signification of the other terms in the propositions in which they occur.
- In his analysis of epistemic verbs or of infinity, Albert admitted that a proposition has its own signification, which is not that of its terms : just like a syncategorematic word, a proposition signifies a mode of a thing . Albert made use of the idea of the distinguishable signification of the proposition in defining truth and in dealing with insolubles or paradoxes of self-reference.