apodeictic
/ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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,..."
- "Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus.