apodeictic
adj/ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.
1
Affording proof; demonstrative.
2
Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
3
Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences 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,...1896, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Art of Controversy, published 1831:
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- Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology:
- Antonyms
- anapodeictic
- Derived terms
- apodeictically
- Related terms
- apodeixis, assertoric