categorical terms

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categorical
adjective
uk
/ˌkæt.əˈɡɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌkæt̬.əˈɡɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
without any doubt or possibility of ...
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term
noun
uk
/tɜːm/us
/tɝːm/
the fixed period of time that something ...
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The general idea is that the environment should correspond to acategoricaltermin some normal form (typically, a weak head normal form).
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Regardless of when language or handedness evolved, it is a mistake, in my view, to think of handedness purely in categorical terms.
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These constraints, it will be shown, have an obvious and arguably necessary reformulation in categorical terms.
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This formulation in categorical terms has the advantage that it does not mention relations.
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Similarly, by presenting only the criterion of statistical significance, rather than the details of the observed and expected counts, the data patterns can only be discussed in categorical terms.
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Being obtained as a free construction, which in categorical terms provides a left adjoint, in this case the semantics is compositional with respect to operations defined in terms of colimits.
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One way to look at affix position in categorical terms is to require that the affix lie within a certain specified distance from the word periphery.
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It may be natural to dichotomize people in categorical terms such as extravert versus introvert, but this oversimplification can obscure much of the important diversity in human personality.
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The relation between the previous machines and category theory is essentially based on the definition of a map from states to categorical terms (in an abstract categorical notion of ^.-model).
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The main operational property of ' freeze' and ' unfreeze' is that unfreeze o freeze = id, or, in categorical terms, that they define a retraction.
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I said in categorical terms that there is no case for general reflation.
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I would repeat the undertaking which was given in quite categorical terms.
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It is obviously impossible to give an answer in categorical terms to a question of that kind.
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They, in quite categorical terms, rejected the flat rate proposals.
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I propose to say in quite categorical terms that this assertion represents approximately the opposite of the truth.
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He gives his advice in the other place in fairly categorical terms.
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I have not spoken in quite such categorical terms.
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I want him to say so in categorical terms.
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I shall not reply in categorical terms to each of them.
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Kissinger appears to have given in categorical terms on our behalf.
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