Chapter 3: General Grammar
“General grammar is concerned with the relation of words to ideas and to realities, whereas a special grammar, such as English or Latin or French or Spanish grammar, is concerned principally with the relation of words to words.”
Categorematic Words (words significant by themselves)
Substantives
Nouns
Pronouns
Attributives
Primary – attributes of substances
Verbs (and verbals)
Adjectives
Secondary – attributes of attributes: Adverbs
Syncategorematic Words (words significant only along with other words)
Definitives, associated to one words
Articles
Pronomials
Connectives, associated to many words
Prepositions – connect words
Conjunctions – connect sentences (either expressed or implied)
The pure copula, which connects subject and predicate
“Time is a measure of change.” Even here we find physics and mechanics and the nature of the universe!
In this chapter, all categorematic and syncategorematic words are explained with their characteristics. For further detail, check the chapter!
Categorematic Words (words significant by themselves)
Substantives
Nouns
Pronouns
Attributives
Primary – attributes of substances
Verbs (and verbals)
Adjectives
Secondary – attributes of attributes: Adverbs
Syncategorematic Words (words significant only along with other words)
Definitives, associated to one words
Articles
Pronomials
Connectives, associated to many words
Prepositions – connect words
Conjunctions – connect sentences (either expressed or implied)
The pure copula, which connects subject and predicate
“Time is a measure of change.” Even here we find physics and mechanics and the nature of the universe!
In this chapter, all categorematic and syncategorematic words are explained with their characteristics. For further detail, check the chapter!
Chapter 4: Terms and their Grammatical Equivalents: Definition and Division
“Words are symbols created to represent reality. A term is a concept communicated through a symbol. Once words are used to communicate a concept of reality, they become terms.”
“A term is the element of logic, just as the word is the element of grammar and the letter is the element of spelling.”
Terms can be empirical and general, positive and negative, concrete and abstract, absolute and relative, collective and distributive.
With regards to the difference of terms we find that they can be repugnant or nonrepugnant, can have both extension and intension.
There are two kinds of definition: logical and distinctive. Others can be causal or descriptive.
“A term is the element of logic, just as the word is the element of grammar and the letter is the element of spelling.”
Terms can be empirical and general, positive and negative, concrete and abstract, absolute and relative, collective and distributive.
With regards to the difference of terms we find that they can be repugnant or nonrepugnant, can have both extension and intension.
There are two kinds of definition: logical and distinctive. Others can be causal or descriptive.