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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

If the latter, then neither an universally valid, much less an apodeictic proposition can arise from it, for experience never can give us any such proposition.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

But that the I which thinks, must be considered as in thought always a subject, and as a thing which cannot be a predicate to thought, is an apodeictic and identical proposition.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

I shall term this the demonstrative or apodeictic employment of reason.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

I divide all apodeictic propositions, whether demonstrable or immediately certain, into dogmata and mathemata.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn