Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Demonstratively; so as to be evident beyond contradiction.
  • By, or in the manner of, an apodictic judgment. See apodictic, 2.

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  • adverb In an apodictical manner.

Etymologies

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apodictical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Given Bush's proclivity for hockey style nicknames, don't you guys think its apodictically certain he called Wolfowitz "Wolfie"?

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Are these so-called first principles apodictically true or merely current empirical wisdom?

    Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit 2007

  • Still, economics is a quantitative science - possibly even an aprioristic one that allows me to construct an apodictically certain architechtonic intellectual edifice that says nothing about th real world unlike pete leesons excellent economic history papers.

    10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • Given Bush's proclivity for hockey style nicknames, don't you guys think its apodictically certain he called Wolfowitz "Wolfie"?

    Wascally Wabbits 2007

  • Such considerations do not demonstrate, apodictically, that condomistic intercourse is not conjugal intercourse.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Mike L 2006

  • Such considerations do not demonstrate, apodictically, that condomistic intercourse is not conjugal intercourse.

    The Catholic condom debate III Mike L 2006

  • I find this upsetting because most economists are victims of, as François Guillaumat would put it, the “Friedman Paradox”: they preach scientistic pseudo-experimentalism as the only methodology and epistemology but they act as if their beliefs, including their philosophical ones, were apodictically certain.

    The Austrian Economists: 2005

  • I find this upsetting because most economists are victims of, as François Guillaumat would put it, the “Friedman Paradox”: they preach scientistic pseudo-experimentalism as the only methodology and epistemology but they act as if their beliefs, including their philosophical ones, were apodictically certain.

    Why Aren’t Austrians at the Discussion Table? - The Austrian Economists 2005

  • Austrians are not alone in claiming that economic laws as well the laws of mathematics, geometry, etc are apodictically certain.

    The Austrian Economists: 2005

  • Austrians are not alone in claiming that economic laws as well the laws of mathematics, geometry, etc are apodictically certain.

    Response to Matt McIntosh - The Austrian Economists 2005

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