Alongside “categorematic” terms that refer to the subject and predicate of the proposition, they recognized “syncategorematic” terms, adding the prefix syn-, which means “with” in Greek. This vocabulary was actually borrowed from grammar, showing yet again the interplay of the three arts of the trivium. Much of the technical discussion in terminist logic involved syncategorematic terms. Take, for instance, the so-called “modal” terms “necessarily” and “possibly.”8 If I say
