categorialadj.
/katɪˈɡɔːrɪəl/ Relating to, or involving, categories, spec. in Logic and Linguistics.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adjective] > relating to categories
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [adjective] > grammatical category
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1912 S. Alexander in Mind XXI. 18 In material things we contemplate their categorial characters.
1920 S. Alexander 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.
1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place iv. 216 (title) The Categorial Factor in Sense-Perception.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 10 The gradual elaboration of categoreal schemes.
1959 P. F. Strawson Individuals v. 172 The categorial criterion.
1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 68 Functional notions like ‘Subject’..are to be..distinguished from categorial notions such as ‘Noun Phrase’.
1965 Language 41 490 Categorial and phrase-structure grammars.
Derivatives
cateˈgorially adv.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [adverb] > grammatical category
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adverb] > relating to categories
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1959 P. F. Strawson Individuals v. 175 The categorially predicable.
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