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s | apodictic |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective apodictic is

incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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