Anything like a categoricalanswer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery,--possibly as much to the point the one as the other.
I have lately by the express advice of all our best friends, added to that of the Duc de la Vauguyon and the Count de Vergennes, demanded a categorical answer.
I have not yet been honored with an answer, and for this reason I have the honor of addressing myself to you, Sir, to demand from you as I do demand, a categorical answer, which I may transmit to my sovereign.
It has been repeatedly repudiated by Governments in the mostcategorical terms, and repudiated sometimes to the point of bloodshed.
Conscience was regarded as an artificial habit created by custom or acquiesced in from tradition; the "categorical imperative" was pronounced the dogmatism of the fanatic.
And if a man feels no such "categorical imperative," how can you prove to him it is there?
More Bohemian people feel no such "categorical ought" in their breasts.
No man with any modern psychological or historical training ought to be content to leave this extraordinary "categorical imperative" unexplained.
It was preceded by a similarcategorical repudiation, on the part of the Bábís, of any intention of interfering with the civil jurisdiction of the realm, or of undermining the legitimate authority of its sovereign.
Hence temperaments determined according to these four categories do not really exist, and the categorical distinction can have no practical value.
For the causal law does not say that everything which occurs, taken as a whole and in its elements, has one ground--that would be simply categorical emptiness.
His judgment falls unabashed, and his discourse splashes on in its dialectical march, every stepping-stone an unquestioned idea, every stride a categorical assertion.
The "categorical imperative" was a shadow of the ten commandments; the postulates of practical reason were the minimal tenets of the most abstract Protestantism.
It is the expression of living interest, preference, and categorical choice.
You might think him on the way to becoming intelligent; but the renewed nutrition and cravings of the sexual machinery soon engross his attention again; all his sprightly indifference vanishes before nature's categorical imperative.
Francis's anxiety must have been great; he could not understand these dilatory measures, these expressions of affection which never led to a categorical approbation.
Merely to reduce it to these simple proportions is to be brought to answer it with a categorical No.
The report shows in detail the difficulties involved in attempting to state in categorical terms the cost of wool production and the great differences in cost as between different regions and different types of wool.
But with both Elsberger and Watelet he met with a polite but categorical refusal.
You cannot affirm that in such a categorical manner.
Apart from the value of such assertions as "there is a categorical imperative in us," one can always ask: What does such an assertion indicate about him who makes it?
A Hypothetical Syllogism is one that consists of a Hypothetical Major Premise, a Categorical Minor Premise, and a Categorical Conclusion.
A Disjunctive Syllogism consists of a Disjunctive Major Premise, a Categorical Minor Premise, and a Categorical Conclusion.
It thus proves the validity of the former Moods by showing that they also essentially conform to the Dictum, and that all Categorical Syllogisms are only superficial varieties of one type of proof.
But science aims at unifying knowledge; and after reducing all possible arguments that form categorical syllogisms to the nineteen Moods, it is another step in the same direction to reduce these Moods to one form.
General Canons of the Syllogism 108 Definitions of Categorical Syllogism; Middle Term; Minor Term; Major Term; Minor and Major Premise (p.
Or the two hypothetical propositions may have a common antecedent or a common consequent; and then the conclusion is a categorical proposition, and the Dilemma is said to be Simple.
But no Converse or Contrapositive of such a Disjunctive can be obtained, except by first casting it into the hypothetical or categorical form.
As to Relation, propositions are either Categorical or Conditional.
To begin with Categorical Syllogisms, of which the following is an example: All authors are vain; Cicero is an author: ∴ Cicero is vain.
For, first, we may justify ourselves in speaking of the hypothetical premise as the major, and of the categorical premise as the minor; since in the categoricalform they contain respectively the major and minor terms.
The Queen expects from your foresight that you have contemplated this possibility, and requires a categorical answer as to what you would do in the event supposed.
The Prince persisted; but it was useless; for a full hour he struggled to extract a categorical answer, until at length Palmerston bowed himself out of the room.
In a word, religious interdictions are categorical imperatives; others are useful maxims, the first form of hygienic and medical interdictions.
I have another law for myself than Kant's "Categorical Imperative.
And now, my friend, do not talk to me about thecategorical imperative!
All more refined servility holds fast to the categorical imperative, and is the mortal enemy of those who want to take away the unconditional character of duty: propriety demands this from them, and not only propriety.
I have endeavoured to establish this view in my previous volume by setting forth categorical examples.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "categorical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
