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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
apodeictic (not comparable)
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- (logic) 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.
1896, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Art of Controversy, published 1831: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,...
2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology:Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.
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Translations
incontrovertibly true or false
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