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

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

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 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

In the former case, the dogmatist must take care that his arguments possess the apodeictic certainty of a demonstration.

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

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

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