categorical

Etymology

From Late Latin catēgoricus + -al.

adj

  1. Absolute; having no exception.
    We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional). 1856, Robert Gordon Latham, Logic in the Application to Language
    Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams. 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74
  2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

noun

  1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

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