Peter Pace

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

American General

Kevin Parker

I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, 'What are you doing, sitting there on your phone. Join the real world, man.' I categorically disliked iPhones. When my friends got an iPhone, I was like, 'Oh, we lost him.

Australian Musician

Robert Lopez

People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.

American Musician

Reham Khan

I categorically state that I did not participate in PTI politics. I was told to be engaged in certain activities as wives of politicians are asked to do all over the world.

Annie Lowrey

The world needs to slash emissions by tens of billions of tons annually, which categorically requires government investment and government regulations.

American Journalist

Immanuel Kant

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

German Philosopher

Stephen Daldry

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

English Director

Robert Zubrin

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

American Scientist

Sergei Lavrov

We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Russian Diplomat

Drew Pinsky

I always hate taking categorical positions.

American Celebrity

When something is stated categorically, it's asserting total certainty or rejection, leaving no room for doubt.

No Doubts Allowed

Using 'categorical' implies a serious and firm tone, often used in formal situations or arguments.

Serious Tone

Use 'categorical' to emphasize the strength and decisiveness of a statement, refusal, or approval.

Strong Emphasis

'Categorical' describes a method of organizing things clearly into groups or classes.

Order and Precision

When using 'categorical' in context of classification, it denotes clarity and specificity of groups.

Clear Classification

In philosophy, 'categorical' often refers to statements that connect different classes or categories.

Logical Relationships

'Categorical' in logic goes beyond observable facts to explore underlying principles and assumptions.

Beyond Simple Facts

 And finally, even though liars keep descriptions simple, they tend to use longer and more convoluted sentence structure, inserting unnecessary words and irrelevant but factual sounding details in order to pad the lie. Another President confronted with a scandal "I can say, categorically, that this investigation indicates

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 the venture capitalists said, "We categorically don't invest in companies founded by husbands and wives, because there's an extra point of failure. It's a bad idea. Don't do it." And we obviously went forward. We did. We raised the money, and we're thrilled that we did,

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 waters are dwindling we now know that certain areas of the deep sea may be targeted for certain types of exploitation so we can begin to think about what might be endangered but there are very few animals in deep sea that we can categorically say are endangered one

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 categorically cold to the touch the muscles were frozen paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that the pain had spread from her wrist to her hands to her fingertips from her wrist up to her elbow almost all the way to her shoulder but the worst part was

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 but accuses Tonya of being the mastermind Tonya categorically denies those allegations anything wrong Jeff and his buddies thought that they were going to start up a security business I mean morons that couldn't even polish shoes or put

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 After watching this video, an hour later, rich people became just as generous of their own time to help out this other person, a stranger, as someone who's poor, suggesting that these differences are not innate or categorical,

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 that say that the things that have been disclosed have not put national security and people at risk, and that is categorically not true. They actually do. I think there's also an amazing arrogance

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 don't give that surprise, because nothing is categorically changing. Languages have all kinds of structural quirks. This is one of my favorites. Lots of languages have grammatical gender;

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 elephants in spite of the impact on trees are traditionally Africa's greatest tree planters and so I have a question are human beings a keystone species the answer is a categorical no

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 From the standpoint of human geography, why we live where we live in the world, it's actually driven by a fairly categorically organized set of variables.