of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition
of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms; "`or is a syncategorematic term"
The modern view in question is characterized in terms of what may be called "the thesis of onto-semantic parallelism," which states that the primitive (indefinable) categorematic concepts of our semantics mark out the primary entities ...