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The initial argument of the Incoherence focuses on apodeixis and the demonstrative character of the arguments refuted therein.
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Know that philosophy is the perfecting of the human soul, through the cognition of the true natures of existents, as they truly are, through judgements concerning them that are ascertained through apodeixis, and not understood through conjecture, or adherence to prior authority, insofar as is humanly possible.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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Knowledge develops and is corroborated through the Aristotelian science of demonstration (apodeixis).
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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That is because the more excellent of demonstrations is one that yields certainty and it is the inference from the cause to the effect; however, its opposite which is the inference from the effect to the cause may yield certainty and that is if the thing sought has a cause that can only be discerned through it as has been explained in apodeixis.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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A demonstration (apodeixis) is "a deduction that produces knowledge".
Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007
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The concepts ˜proof™ (apodeixis) and ˜sullogismos™ play a crucial role in Aristotle's logical-dialectical theory.
Aristotle's Rhetoric Rapp, Christof 2002
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Proof: apodeixis (in the sense of ˜demonstrative argument, demonstration™)
Aristotle's Rhetoric Rapp, Christof 2002
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He pason apodeixeon echenguotera, mallon d ', he mone apodeixis ousa tunchanei.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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If these be certain and evident the deduction is called demonstration, the Aristotelian apodeixis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Christ revealed this truth and is for us [Greek: tôn olôn pistis kai apodeixis].
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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