apodictic

American

[ap-uh-dik-tik] / ˌæp əˈdɪk tɪk /

Also apodeictic

adjective

incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.
Logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain.

Other Word Forms

apodeictically adverb
apodictically adverb

Etymology

Origin of apodictic

1645–55; < Latin apodīcticus < Greek apodeiktikós proving fully. See apo-, deictic

Example Sentences

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Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage!

From Time Magazine Archive

Advance in thinking, in the hegelian universe, has, in short, to proceed by the apodictic words must be rather than by those inferior hypothetic words may be, which are all that empiricists can use.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to "apodictic certainty."

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Strange is it not that, oft her Dolour cloaking In hurried Puffs with Nonchalance provoking, No woman reads that apodictic Ode "How to be Happy Even Though You're Smoking?"

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

Now all commandment necessarily relates to the will; whereas all scientific demonstration is independent of the will, and is apodictic or demonstrative only as far as it is compulsory on the mind, 'volentem, nolentem'.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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