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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

Etymology

Origin of apodeictic

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

Example Sentences

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apodeictic

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

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

For geometrical principles are always apodeictic, that is, united with the consciousness of their necessity, as: "Space has only three dimensions."

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

Science has but few apodeictic precepts in its catechism; it consists chiefly of assertions which it has developed to certain degrees of probability.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

Hence a proof upon empirical grounds cannot be apodeictic.

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