Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
apodictic , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.
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- adjective logic Of or stating the
characteristic feature of aproposition that isnecessary (orimpossible ),perfectly certain (orinconceivable ) orincontrovertibly true (orfalse ).
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- adjective of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
Etymologies
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Examples
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For geometrical principles are always apodeictic, that is, united with the consciousness of their necessity, as: "Space has only three dimensions."
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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I believed it was apodeictic that Collins was not as well known, but it appears I was embrangled.
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It is apodeictic that the caliginosity of the agrestic embrangle periapts with mansuetude.
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The contrast should rather be seen as one between apodeictic certainty (about intelligible matters) and plausibility [13] (about empirical matters).
Plato's Timaeus Zeyl, Donald 2009
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One implication of the unending nature of the interpretation of appearances through infinite sequences of signs is that Peirce can be no type of epistemological foundationalist or believer in absolute or apodeictic knowledge.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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Chomskyans typically take this point, conceding that the argument from the poverty of the stimulus is not apodeictic.
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words.
A malison on the poor of spirit. Angry Professor 2008
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It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words.
Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008
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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 as true, [Greek: endoxa] probabilia; conclusions in regard to which it is not taken for granted that they are false, and also not taken for granted that they are true in themselves, since that is not the point.
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It is understood that a combination of assertory or of apodeictic premises may warrant an assertory or an apodeictic conclusion; but that if we combine either of these with a problematic premise our conclusion becomes problematic; whilst the combination of two problematic premises gives a conclusion less certain than either.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apodeictic
JM acknowledges that it is evidently demonstrable that an apodeictic is incontrovertible.
January 10, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word apodeictic
"(logic) Of or stating the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible), perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false)."
--Wiktionary
April 5, 2011
yarb commented on the word apodeictic
'He said in an attempt at a lighter tone, "Now Melissa the plain apodeictic fact is nobody is very sensible," but she paid no attention to this truth...'
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
January 2, 2012