categorical
pronunciation
How to pronounce categorical in British English:
UK [ˌkætəˈɡɒrɪkl]
How to pronounce categorical in American English:
US [ˌkætəˈɡɔːrɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or included in a category
- not modified or restricted by reservations
Word Origin
- categorical (adj.)
- 1590s, as a term in logic, "unqualified, asserting absolutely," from Late Latin categoricus, from Greek kategorikos "accusatory, affirmative, categorical," from kategoria (see category). General sense of "explicit, unconditional" is from 1610s. Categorical imperative, from the philosophy of Kant, first recorded 1827. Related: Categorically.
Example
- 1. Seems , at first glance , pretty categorical and reassuring , doesn 't it ?
- 2. Today , we have a gigantic categorical index .
- 3. This is the point that kant without completely realizing it captured by saying that morality is categorical .
- 4. And sure , in 1973 miller v. california pulled porn out of the categorical forcefield of free speech .
- 5. On the one hand , there are those that argue the disastrous events in japan at the fukushima plant are categorical proof of the potentially lethal nature of nuclear power .