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

Hence a proof upon empirical grounds cannot be apodeictic.

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

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

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 its apodeictic nature, it is the absoluteness of spirit.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

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.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various