apodeictics
apodeictics is the plural of apodeictic.
Meaning of apodeictic
Adjective
apodeictic (not comparable)
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
- 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.1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition
Questions about apodeictics
- What is apodeictics the plural of?
- Apodeictics is the plural of apodeictic.
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