apodeictic

British  

/ ˌæpəˈdaɪktɪk, ˌæpəˈdɪktɪk /

adjective

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

2. archaic logic

   1. necessarily true

   2. asserting that a property holds necessarily

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Other Word Forms

• apodeictically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of apodeictic

C17: from Latin apodīcticus, from Greek apodeiktikos clearly demonstrating, from apodeiknunai to demonstrate

Example Sentences

Mathematics carries with it thoroughly apodeictic certainty, that is, absolute necessity, and, therefore, rests on no empirical grounds, and consequently is a pure product of reason, and, besides, is thoroughly synthetical.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

In its apodeictic nature, it is the absoluteness of spirit.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

Hence a proof upon empirical grounds cannot be apodeictic.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

In the first place, it is evident that both present us, with very many apodeictic and synthetic propositions a priori, but especially space—and for this reason we shall prefer it for investigation at present.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

We have here only to do with the distinction of imperatives into problematical, assertorial, and apodeictic.

From The Critique of Practical Reason by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill