different between categorical vs irrefutable

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin irref?t?bilis, from in- (“not”) + ref?t?bilis (“refutable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????fju?t?b?l/, /?????fju?t?b?l/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /????fj?t?b?l/, /????fju?t?b?l/

Adjective

irrefutable (comparative more irrefutable, superlative most irrefutable)

1. undeniable; unable to be disproved or refuted

   Antonym: refutable

Translations

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin irref?t?bilis, from in- (“not”) + ref?t?bilis (“refutable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /irefu?table/, [i.re.fu?t?a.??le]

Adjective

irrefutable (plural irrefutables)

1. irrefutable

Related terms

• refutar