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Synthetic Judgment (Kant. Ger. synthetische Urteil) A judgment relating a subject concept with a predicate concept not included within the subject proper. The validity of such a judgment depends on its ‘ground’. Kant’s central question was”Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?” See Kantianism, Scientific Empiricism. See also Meaning, kinds of, 2. — O.F.K. Fuente: The … Continue reading “Synthetic Judgment”

SYNTHESIS, or SYNESIS SYNTHESIS, or SYNESIS, is, when a Pronoun, Verb, or Participle, is construed with a collective Noun, not grammatically, but according to the sense: for example,-Mat 25:32, -for . Also Mat 28:19, , .-Comp. the Title SYLLEPSIS. Fuente: Gnomon Technical Terms

Synthesis In logic, the general method of deduction or deductive reasoning, which proceeds from the simple to the complex, from the general to the particular, from the necessary to the contingent, from a principle to its application, from a general law to individual cases from cause to effect, from an antecedent to its consequent, from … Continue reading “Synthesis”

Syntax, logical “By the logical syntax of a language,” according to Carnap, “we mean the formal theory of the linguistic forms of that language — the systematic statement of the formal rules which govern it together with the development of the consequences which follow from these rules. A theory, a rule, a definition, or the … Continue reading “Syntax, logical”

Syntax language See Object language. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Syntagma Canonum A canonical collection made in 1335 by Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is known. The collector aimed at reducing canon law to a handier and more accessible form than it appeared in the Nomocanon of Photius, and to give a more comprehensive presentation than the epitomes and synopses of … Continue reading “Syntagma Canonum”

Syntagma The systematized wholes of life views, of life tendencies such as aestheticism, naturalism and intellectualism. (Eucken). — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Syntactics See Syntax, logical, and Semiotic 3. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Synoptics, Synoptists SYNOPTICS, SYNOPTISTS.The term Synoptics is, according to the universal practice of modern NT scholars, applied to the Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke, as distinguished from the Gospel of St. John; and these three Evangelists are known as the Synoptists. It is so used because these Gospels are so constructed … Continue reading “Synoptics, Synoptists”

Synoptics The name given since Griesbach’s time (about 1790) to the first three canonical Gospels. It is derived from the fact that these Gospels admit — differently from the evangelical narrative of St. John, of being arranged and harmonized section by section, so as to allow the eye to realize at a glance (synopsis) the … Continue reading “Synoptics”