“Terms”

What is Term?
- Although term is expressive of an idea, however, not every word is a term, because there are
words that cannot stand on its own like prepositions, articles, and conjunctions
(syncategorematic). So those words in which we do not have any clear idea or mental
representation cannot be called term.
- Term then is defined as a word or group of words which expresses the essence of the object
(idea). That is why idea and term are correlative terms, one cannot exist without the other.
There can be no term without idea.
- There are no terms that have not passed through the senses. Terms are sensible.
- The term is primarily and directly representing some idea.
- Terms are expression of ideas. In other words, a term is a vehicle through which an idea is
expressed.

Classification of Term
- Exactness in which terms are understood based on how they manifest or express ideas. There
different types of terms under the classifying of term through exactness. (Univocal terms,
Equivocal terms, Analogous terms)
- Comprehension. (Positive terms, Negative terms, Privative terms, Simple terms, Complex
terms, Concrete terms, Abstract terms)
- Extension. (Singular terms, Universal terms, Particular terms, Collective terms)
- Opposition/ Relation (Contradictory terms, Contrary terms, Paradoxical terms)

“Predicaments and Predicables”

Overview
- The system of Categories (Predicaments) is a classification of terms of first intention, based on
difference in the way in which terms signify things that are not terms. All this considered in
abstraction from questions of existence or fact, and from truth or falsity of any propositions
involving these terms. The truth of a proposition depends on the signification or meaning of its
terms.
- The terms dealt with in the discussion of the Predicables are considered as elements of
propositions.
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