Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial.

["Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>]

Peter Easthope (peasthope@shaw.ca) proposed:

> According to online dictionaries, categorical and categorial can be 
> synonyms.  Almost everyone seems to prefer categorical whereas 
> categorial comes from the simple rule of replacing the last vowel of 
> the noun with "ial".
> 
> So, is the preference for categorical just an inheritance from early 
> authors?  Is there a stronger reason to use it?  Is the explanation 
> in the archive?

It's a lovely "simple rule", Peter, but where does it apply? Certainly not to
Allegory, Anthropology, Biology, Botany, Catastrophe, Economy, Geology,
History, 
..., Numerology, Ornithology, Philosophy, Psychology, ..., Topology, ...,
Zoology. 

"Arterial", from artery, and "peripheral", from periphery, look more like
exceptions 
to, rather than instances of, any rule. Or am I overlooking masses of other
evidence?

Anyway, has anyone started speaking yet (in English) of Kant's "categorial
imperative"?

Cheers, -- Fred 



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