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apodictic

[ ap-uh-dik-tik ]

adjective

  1. incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.
  2. Logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain.


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Other Words From

  • apo·dicti·cal·ly apo·deicti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of apodictic1

1645–55; < Latin apodīcticus < Greek apodeiktikós proving fully. See apo-, deictic

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Example Sentences

An a priori intuition will alone account for such apodictic knowledge.

Apodictic propositions, he declares, are either dogmata or mathemata; and the former are beyond the competence of the human mind.

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