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apodictic | apodicticity |

As an adjective apodictic

is incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.

As a noun apodicticity is

the state of being apodictic.

apodictic

English

(wikipedia apodictic)

Alternative forms

* apodeictic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 284:
    • No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.
  • A style of argument, in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
    • Don't be so apodictic ! You haven't considered several facets of the question.
  • (theology, Biblical studies) absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"

    • Antonyms

    * problematic * assertorical

    Derived terms

    * apodict * apodictical * apodictically * apodictism

    apodicticity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia apodicticity) (-)
  • The state of being apodictic