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6 words match “CATEGORICAL”

CATEGORICAL a. 2 definitions
e; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.…
CATEGORICALLY adv.
Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
CATEGORICALNESS n.
The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.
ASSUMPTION n.
The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
CONDITIONAL a.
ord, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill.
MINOR n.
ise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of mone…