Apodeictic
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/
Alternative forms
Origin
From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός. Compare Latin apodicticus
Full definition of apodeictic
Adjective
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).
- 1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, , 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.
- 1896, Thomas Bailey Saunders (translator), 1831, Arthur Schopenhauer, 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 currently as true,...
- 2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology,Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.