Since the definition is a little dense, I'll expound a tad -- it means words that are meaningful only along with other words, such as "all" and "any" and "the". It comes from a reference to the modifier words in old Greek logical propositions like "all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal". The nouns and adjectives (men, Socrates, mortal) were kategorema, or categorem, so the words that accompanied them were syncategoremata, or roughly "things that show up with the kategorema".
Since the definition is a little dense, I'll expound a tad -- it means words that are meaningful only along with other words, such as "all" and "any" and "the". It comes from a reference to the modifier words in old Greek logical propositions like "all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal". The nouns and adjectives (men, Socrates, mortal) were kategorema, or categorem, so the words that accompanied them were syncategoremata, or roughly "things that show up with the kategorema".
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Welp, that's it.
The last person I knew on here is moving over to DreamWidth. When I load my friends list (without her) I literally get one private post from me and…
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Moved all my RSS feeds over...
It looks like DreamWidth also supports creating unlimited RSS feeds for various stuff... I've moved all mine over. Okay, *now* my friends list looks…
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Setting up DreamWidth...
I now have noahgibbs.dreamwidth.org. This same userid already belongs to somebody else who has no posts and doesn't otherwise resemble me. Still…
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