From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7433 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Terminology; categorical versus categorial. Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred E.J. Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347046047 27246 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 19:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: To: , Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Fri Sep 07 21:27:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpy.mta.ca ([138.73.1.128]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TA4DA-0006Jk-VI for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44958) by smtpy.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TA4CY-0002Ka-0s; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:26:50 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TA4Cs-0008Vk-R7 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:27:10 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7433 Archived-At: 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 no= t to Allegory, Anthropology, Biology, Botany, Catastrophe, Economy, Geology, History, = =2E.., Numerology, Ornithology, Philosophy, Psychology, ..., Topology, ..= =2E, 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 oth= er evidence? Anyway, has anyone started speaking yet (in English) of Kant's "categoria= l imperative"? Cheers, -- Fred = [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]