What does "syncategorematic" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "syncategorematic"?

Common synonyms include: synsemantic.

adj

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Adjective

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Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
"In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic."

Adjective

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of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms wordnet

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

From syn- + categorematic.

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