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categoricity

categoricity noun: the quality of being categorical.

Noun

categoricity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being categorical.
    • For the arithmeticity of the axioms of PA—i. e. the claim that they can be seen as true on the basis of our basic grasp of the structure of the natural numbers—is motivated by Isaacson by appealing to the categoricity of PA 2, the second-order theory which provides us with a categorical...2008 August 27, Luca Incurvati, “Too Naturalist and Not Naturalist Enough: Reply to Horsten”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI

Origin of categoricity

From categoric + -ity.

Questions about categoricity

What does categoricity mean?
Categoricity means the quality of being categorical.
What part of speech is categoricity?
Categoricity is a noun.

Words near categoricity in the dictionary

  1. categorical variable
  2. categorical variables
  3. categorically
  4. categoricalness
  5. categoricals
  6. categoricity
  7. categorie
  8. categories
  9. categorification
  10. categorifications
  11. categorified

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