apodeictic

/ ˌæpəˈdaɪktɪk; ˌæpəˈdɪktɪk /

adjective

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
2. archaic.
   logic
   1. necessarily true
   2. asserting that a property holds necessarily

Derived Forms

• ˌapoˈdeictically, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of apodeictic¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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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.

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In its apodeictic nature, it is the absoluteness of spirit.

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We have here only to do with the distinction of imperatives into problematical, assertorial, and apodeictic.

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