categorical

Meanings

• adjective

  Relating to or involving categories or the classification of things.

• Arranged into groups or classes.

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Antonyms

conditional , exceptional , hypothetical , relative

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Synonyms

absolute , categoric , unconditional

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with categorical
hymnal , sympathetic , anecdotal

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Variants

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categoric , categorical , categorically , category , categorical imperative , categorical imperatives

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Etymology

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From Greek kategorein ‘accuse, denounce, maintain, assert’, from kat- ‘down’ + agorein ‘speak’.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'categorical' is derived from the Greek word 'kategorein', which means 'to accuse' or 'to speak against'.

2. In philosophy, 'categorical' refers to statements that apply universally to all members of a category, as opposed to 'modal' statements that apply only under certain conditions.

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Related Concepts

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1. Classification: The process of identifying the category or group that an object or data point belongs to based on certain characteristics.

2. Taxonomy: The science of classification, particularly the classification of organisms.

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Culture

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In mathematics, a categorical structure is a collection of objects and arrows between them, satisfying certain axioms. In statistics and machine learning, categorical variables are variables whose possible values fall into distinct categories.

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