Meaning of syncategorematic | Babel Free

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Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.

Examples

“In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.”

“In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.”

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