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categorial, a.|kætɪˈgɔərɪəl|
Also categoreal.
[ad. G. kategorial (W. Wundt Logik (1880) I. 107), f. category + -al.]
Relating to, or involving, categories, spec. in Logic and Linguistics. Hence cateˈgorially adv.
1912S. Alexander in Mind XXI. 18 In material things we contemplate their categorial characters. 1920― Space, Time & Deity I. ii. i. 185 The pervasive characters of existents are what are known from Kant's usage as the categories of experience, and I shall call them, in distinction from the empirical ones or qualities, categorial characters. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place iv. 216 (title) The Categorial Factor in Sense-Perception. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 10 The gradual elaboration of categoreal schemes. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals v. 172 The categorial criterion. Ibid. 175 The categorially predicable. 1965N. Chomsky Theory of Syntax ii. 68 Functional notions like ‘Subject’..are to be..distinguished from categorial notions such as ‘Noun Phrase’. 1965Language XLI. 490 Categorial and phrase-structure grammars. |