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Definition of Categorem
1. Noun. A categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition. "Names are called categorems"
Generic synonyms: Term
Derivative terms: Categorematic, Categorematic
Antonyms: Syncategorem, Syncategoreme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Categorem
Literary usage of Categorem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, Charles Duke Yonge (1853)
"That is a negative proposition, which consists of a negative particle and a
categorem, as for instance, " No one is walking. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"For what Mr. Russell really means by a variable here is either a general class
name, distributed by the conjunction of a universal categorem or otherwise, ..."
3. Origin of Language and Myths by Morgan Peter Kavanagh (1871)
"... given in the passage already quoted : " strictly speaking, it is doubtful
whether even adjectives and pronouns are truly categorem;itir ; inasmuch as it ..."
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