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

What causes us here commonly to believe that the predicate of such apodeictic judgements is already contained in our conception, and that the judgement is therefore analytical, is merely the equivocal nature of the expression.

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

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

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

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

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

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