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

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

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

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

In the first place, it is evident that both present us, with very many apodeictic and synthetic propositions a priori, but especially space—and for this reason we shall prefer it for investigation at present.

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

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