Category
Kategorema ( Greek κατηγόρημα kategorema ) is a terminus of the philosophical logic .
In Aristotle it designates the predicative part of a sentence.
In scholastic logic, however, the meaning of the word has changed. So named William of Ockham such terms as "kategorematisch" that a certain ( certam ) meaning (eg the noun called "man" all people) and borders it against the "syncategorematic" terms (for example: "everyone", " no ”,“ any ”,“ whole ”,“ except ”,“ only ”,“ insofar as ”), which have no specific meaning but are added to another term and can thus change its meaning.
Boethius translated the ancient Greek word kategorema with praedicatum into Latin.
literature
Hans Michael Baumgartner : Categories, categorematic . In: Joachim Ritter ua (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Volume 4 . Schwabe, Basel 1972, Col. 712-713.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Aristoteles, De Interpretatione 20b32; Metaphysics 1053b19; Topik 169b5; Physics 201a1.
- ^ Wilhelm von Ockham, Summa logicae I, 4, 3ff.
- ↑ Boethius, In Arist. De interpret. Com. MPL 64, 356.