Henkin semantics permits non-standard comprehension axioms, meaning 'categoricity' within Henkin models tracks structural properties relative to those axiom schemes, not an absolute notion.
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Something that doesn't match the usual or expected interpretation—in this context, a number-like object that behaves differently than ordinary natural numbers do.
categoricity(Joyce's term for the inescapable practical force of moral demands)
The property of moral requirements whereby they apply to agents unconditionally, regardless of the agent's contingent desires, goals, or interests
structural properties(Maxwell's distinction used to rebut Kripke's challenge to the mind-brain identity theory)
Properties of brain events that are revealed by common sense, physics, and neurophysiology, as opposed to underlying non-structural (qualitative/phenomenal) properties