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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

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Etymology

Origin of apodeictic

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

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Example Sentences

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apodeictic

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

From The Critique of Practical Reason by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

Only an apodeictic proof, based upon intuition, can be termed a demonstration.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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 Harold Arthur Prichard

Kant believed himself to have established for philosophy a system of apodeictic conclusions, which were as completely forever to have displaced the old dogmatism as Copernicus had displaced the Ptolemaic astronomy.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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