apodeictic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/
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, Thomas Bailey Saunders (translator), 1831, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Controversy
- 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.
- 1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition,
- apodeixis
- Portuguese: apodíctico, apodítico
- Spanish: apodíctico
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