Apodeictic

/ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/

Synonyms for "apodeictic" (16 found)

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Adjective(4 words)
a priori judgmentapodicticaxiomaticaxiomatic judgment

Strong matches (4)

Related words (8)

Adjective(8 words)
indubitableirrefutablenecessary propositionobviousself evidentunequivocaluniversal propositionunquestionable

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More general

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colloquial usagedefinitional attributeepistemic attributeepistemic claiminformal usagelogical propertytheoretical claim

More specific

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a priori propositionapodeictic argumentapodeictic judgmentapodeictic reasoningapodeictic syllogismclear propositionobvious assertionself evident propositionsynthetic a priori proposition

Collocations

6 entries
apodeictic argumentapodeictic certaintyapodeictic judgmentapodeictic propositionapodeictic reasoningapodeictic syllogism

Inflections

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more apodeicticmost apodeictic

Derivations

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similar

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Translations

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Catalan

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  • apodíctic adj (incontrovertibly true or false)

French

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  • apodictique adj (incontrovertibly true or false)

Portuguese

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  • apodíctico adj (incontrovertibly true or false)
  • apodítico adj (incontrovertibly true or false)

Spanish

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  • apodíctico adj (incontrovertibly true or false)

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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.

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Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) 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[ly] as true,...

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Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.

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