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Apodeictic

//ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Affording proof; demonstrative. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident. not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.

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