categorical

Speech parts

1. categorical - Noun

2. categorical - Adjective

3. categorical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

absolute unconditional categoric certain direct clear positive distinct flat express explicit decisive unequivocal definite unambiguous
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Antonyms

hypothetical conditional cod maverick chancy relative
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Phrases with the word

categorical syllogism categorical logic categorical grant categorical requirement

Examples

There 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

Close letter words and terms

categorial grammar categorially categoric categorical dual categorical grant categorical imperative