- of or relating to a category
- (of a statement) consisting of a subject, S, and a predicate, P, each of which denotes a class, and having one of the following forms: all S are P (universal affirmative); some S are P (particular affirmative); some S are not P (particular negative); no S are P (universal negative)
See syllogism
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cat•e•go•ri•al
(kat′i gôr′ē əl, -gōr′-),USA pronunciation adj. [Ling.]
- Linguisticsof or pertaining to a categorial grammar.
- Linguistics(in generative grammar) of or pertaining to the part of the base component that contains rules for establishing syntactic categories and ordering the elements within them.
- compare German categorial (1880) pertaining to categories in logic category + -al1
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categorial /ˌkætɪˈɡɔːrɪəl/ adj
'categorial' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
affirmative
- categorical
- contraposition
- distribute
- I
- negative
- O
- obverse
- subject
- syllogism
- Venn diagram
- categorial grammar