1. categorical - Noun
2. categorical - Adjective
3. categorical - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to a category.
Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is ... but one categorical imperative Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. Kenzaburō Ōe
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. Oriana Fallaci
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative. Jean Cocteau
Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind. Hans Hofmann
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant