Unambiguously explicit

Usage examples of categorical.

Darwin should not have known that though the my excised in 1866 was the most technically categorical, the others were in reality just as guilty, though no tower of Siloam in the shape of excision fell upon them.

His strong, squared features, his formidable scowl, his solid-looking head, his iron-gray hair, his positive and as it were categorical stride, his slow, precise way of putting a statement, the strange union of trampling radicalism in some directions and high-stepping conservatism in others, which made it impossible to calculate on his unexpressed opinions, his testy ways and his generous impulses, his hard judgments and kindly actions, were characteristics that gave him a very decided individuality.

Rather, I am free only when I act from the worldcentric stance given by my own rationality, free because I transcend these lesser and shallower engagements, engagements that proceed without benefit of universal compassion and categorical care, and thus engagements that hurt me as well.

This categorical rejectionthe dialecticcreates an opening or clearing in awareness in which the primordial and unobstructed nature of the Real can shine forth nondualistically as the Suchness of all phenomena.

Kant, too, with his categorical imperative, was on the same road: this was hispractical reason.

I felt such a sudden surge of the categorical imperative, that I wouldn't have touched a fly.

Vonnegut: Well, it seemed a categorical imperative that I write about Dresden, the firebombing of Dresden, since it was the largest massacre in the history of Europe and I am a person of European extraction and I, a writer, had been present.

By the end of act two, the Kantian categorical imperative has taken hold, and the crew starts behaving decently again.

To hear a nuhp talk, he had a direct line to some categorical imperative that spelled everything out in terms that were unflinchingly black and white.

He had never heard of Kant and the Categorical Imperative, but he knew well enough which side of his nature would win in the long run.

He had neverheard of Kant and the Categorical Imperative, but he knewwell enough which side of his nature would win in the longrun.

When, in formulating their theses of categorical imperatives, of the relationship of thought to perception -- when did they conscientiously undertake to question, first, a large number of human subjects?

Necessary, when an acceptable way for a Bhor to deliver a categorical syllogism’.

In his categorical affirmative of the essential character of things, in his often rash simplification of form, in his insolent desire to look at the sun face to face, in the passion of his drawing and colour, there lies revealed a powerful one, a male, a darer who is sometimes brutal, sometimes ingenuously delicate.

Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical statements of fact unencumbered with obstructing accumulations of metaphor and allegory?