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'''Syncategoremata'''
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In medieval logic, '''syncategoremata''' are words which are not '''categorematic''': they cannot be used on their own as a subject term or as a predicate term.  Syncategorematic terms can occur in a categorical or hypothetical proposition only with at least one matched pair of categorematic words – e.g., ''only'' Socrates runs (Solus Socrates currit), Socrates does ''not'' run (Socrates non currit).
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More than fifty different words were considered in the medieval logicians' treatment of syncategoremata.
  
 
== Primary sources ==
 
== Primary sources ==
  
* ''Quaestiones Victorinae'' (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) 1st half 12th century
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* ''Quaestiones Victorinae'' 1st half 12th century
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** In [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]], ''Logica Modernorum'' Vol. 2, Assen: Van Gorcum 1967.
 
* ''Tractatus de univocatione'' (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) 3rd quarter 12th century
 
* ''Tractatus de univocatione'' (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) 3rd quarter 12th century
 
* ''Ars Emmerana'' (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) 3rd quarter 12th century
 
* ''Ars Emmerana'' (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) 3rd quarter 12th century
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* [[Nicholas of Paris]] ''Syncategoremata''  (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) c. 1250
 
* [[Nicholas of Paris]] ''Syncategoremata''  (ed. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk|de Rijk]]) c. 1250
 
* ''Quoniam ignoratis communibus'' (exc. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Martin Grabmann|Grabmann]]) c. 1250
 
* ''Quoniam ignoratis communibus'' (exc. [[Directory:Logic Museum/Martin Grabmann|Grabmann]]) c. 1250
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== References ==
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* Kretzmann, Norman. "Syncategoremata, exponibilia, sophismata." [[Directory:Logic Museum/The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy|The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy]]

Latest revision as of 11:32, 8 March 2009

In medieval logic, syncategoremata are words which are not categorematic: they cannot be used on their own as a subject term or as a predicate term. Syncategorematic terms can occur in a categorical or hypothetical proposition only with at least one matched pair of categorematic words – e.g., only Socrates runs (Solus Socrates currit), Socrates does not run (Socrates non currit).

More than fifty different words were considered in the medieval logicians' treatment of syncategoremata.

Primary sources

References