Before revision: In scholastic logic , a syncategorematic term (or syncategorema) is a word that cannot serve as the subject or the predicate of a proposition, logic and linguistics, an expression is syncategorematic if it lacks a denotation but can nonetheless affect the denotation of a larger expression which contains it.
After revision: In logic and linguistics, an expression is syncategorematic if it lacks a denotation but can nonetheless affect the denotation of a larger expression which contains it.