apodeictic

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/

Definition of apodeictic

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Affording proof; demonstrative.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Affording proof; demonstrative.
  2. (not-comparable)Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  3. (not-comparable)Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
    “1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition, Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty.”
    “Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,...”
    “Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.

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